TIRANA, July 22/ATA/- Tirana Prosecutor’s Office in cooperation with the State Police arrested 4 persons involved in a fraud scheme.
Tirana Prosecutor Elizabeta Imeraj stated at a press conference that 2 Albanians and 2 foreigners have been arrested.
The State Police explained that these citizens, in cooperation with each other, have carried out actions with the aim of setting up an e-mail fraud scheme to deceive citizens through the creation of fictitious commercial entities, redirecting the banking transactions of commercial entities and so on. This is the first time that Albanian Police deals a blow to such a criminal scheme.
So far, there have also been identified subjects that have fallen prey to this fraud from different countries of the world and more precisely from the USA, Germany, England, Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Lithuania and the Philippines.
So far, it is suspected that these citizens have exercised their criminal activity for about 2 years and together with unidentified citizens outside the territory of Albania may have committed fraudulent payment by e-mail in an amount of about 4,000,000 Euros./p.s./
