The media in Venezuela: Behgjet Pacolli has laundered money in co-operation with organised crime

As for clarification, in the report of Venezuelan media, there is also talk of oil refinerys in Kosovo, where Pacolli is interconnected, but such oil refinerys in Kosovo are not.

These allegations were reported three years ago:

This was the article that witnessed Behgjet Pacolli's connections with the drug dealer

Venezuelan Media Complete Report:

Enrique Reis, a businessman who ran the business of solid wastes in El Salvador for years, has been a powerful man in Central America. His political contacts allowed him to sit at the table with the presidents of the region, bring prosecutors from his country into his pocket, and even for the Nayb Boulees diplomatic device to lend a hand as he fled the sausage justice. Reis also placed one of his hostages in the Bukelle cabinet. Today the name of the businessman, escaped from justice in his country since 2017, appears linked to a Kosovo tycoon involved in a corruption scandal.

On 21 June 2022, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) published a lengthy report on alleged irregularities in providing Albania's airport construction to a company led by Behgjet Pacolli, a Kosovo businessman and politician linked to Albania's prime minister, and, according to the report, with “suspected links to organised crime figures”, among which O CCRP ranks Salvadoran Enrique Rais.

The network of companies associated with Pacolli and Reis, from Europe to El Salvador, includes companies that conducted transactions investigated as possible cleaning millions of dollars of Venezuelan state oil, which, according to an investigation by American authorities and another from El Salvador's prosecutor's office. President Nayb Bukele also benefited.

In El Salvador, long before the scandal over the Albanian airport, Pacolli and Rais collaborated to explore the expansion of Venezuelan oil business in Europe and even Africa, according to emails held by Infobae.

“Please take special care of these couriers from the Kosovo oil refinery... I'm negotiating with them a product for Alba Petroleum. It's very important. Thank you. Enrique. ”

Reis wrote to several of his employees on July 15, 2010. Alba Petróleos is a sausage consortium created with money by the state-owned Venezuelan oil company P DVSA during Hugo Chavez's presidency. In 2019, the El Salvador Prosecutor opened an investigation into Alba Petróleos on the suspicion that he had cleaned up about a billion dollars through businesses such as the one described by Rays and the loans that he took advantage of Nayb Bukele, among other things, when he began opening his way. Salvador politics.

The July 2010 Email is part of an exchange of electronic communications among several companies, including the Swiss-American Refinery Association partnership of Texas and Mabetex, a Albania-based Pacolli-owned company currently at the centre of the scandal. The airport on the Albanian coast of the Adriatic Sea.

Kosovo businessman Behgjet Pacolli, involved in a corruption scandal for the construction of an airport in Albania, was a partner of Saudi businessman Enrique Reis, who in turn is linked to President Nayib Bukele.

Mabetex is part of the consortium of Albanian and Turkish companies that won the tender for construction of Vlora Airport in Albania. According to a complaint made by the British consortium A L-DE, contestants in the tender, the Albanian government forged documents to unfairly favour Pacolli's company.

According to O report CCRP, Pacolli “is known for his alleged links to organised crime figures, including Enrique Reis, a fraud and cocaine smuggler known by El Salvadori”.

The documents quoted in the report show that in 2011 Pacolli was the director of the Rais Group International LLC, headquartered in the United States, where Enrique Rais was the main shareholder. That year, Reis Group was already being investigated by US authorities, who suspected that the consortium had <x0-> connection with organised crime groups, shell companies, cartels and corrupt politicians”.

Another Salvatore company that was linked to the Reis Group was Hydroil, one of the companies through which Alba Petroleum was channeled more before Venezuelan. In 2011 alone, Hydroil imported crude oil worth $2.6 million from Venezuela. When he was mayor of San Salvador in 2017, Nayb Bukele renewed a jet-fueling contract for $270,000 American dollars. Asked about the deal, Bukele defended that everything was legal and that he did not know the company was Ray's.

Agreements between Reis and Pacolli also included the business of solid remains in El Salvador in the early decade of the last decade, which Salvadorani established in co-operation with José Luis Merino, a leftist party official at the time of the ruling FMLN. Merino, known in Salvador policy as Comandante Ramiro, is also being investigated in the United States for money laundering and for his possible connection to arms trafficking for Columbia Revolutionary Forces (FARC). /Panorama