Regarding the activities of this call centre, the SPAK has issued arrest warrants for 14 people. For nine of them, the security measure <x0) prison arrest” has been set up, while another five “house arrest”.
The call centre was located on “Dritian Hoxha” in Tirana.
The SPAK co-operated with Pordenone's prosecutor, the municipality in Italy, and the encrypted operation “Dream arms” was followed by an operation launched in October 2022.
“are administered 140 accounts of injured persons in Italy and the amount of money they have lost amounted to 4.7m euros”, SPAK prosecutor Eneid Nakuci said.
Italian prosecutor Maria Grazia Zaina said the investigation has resulted in frauds being very skilled in using real techniques enough to convince innocent citizens to invest hundreds of thousands of euros in current accounts abroad during that time.
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Initially, they were persuaded to invest in small sums of money and then stimulate them to invest in large sums, making them believe that they would gain more and more. Prosecutor Eneid Nakuci said the profited money went to cryptovalut and to untraceable foreign accounts.
During the press conference, an estimated 42,000 wiretapping has been announced, and it has resulted in money laundering in countries such as Cyprus, Lithuania, Estonia, Holland, Germany and converting to cryptovalutes.
“on any input transfer resulted in the delivery of an amount of BitCoin (Clitrus) in favour of an unknown portfolio, thus losing traces of money”, prosecutor Nakuci said.
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The SPAK stressed that it was exercised in 12 residences where various computer devices, phones, laptops were seized during the search, USB and Bitcoin manufacturing equipment.
It also became known that investigative verifications have also made possible the definition and identification of responsible techniques of the structured group, which managed not only the IT infrastructure of the call centre, but also cared to hide and prevent investigations into them and identify the call centre.
