At the graduation ceremony of the students of the “Holberton School” computer science school, Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj said that in a few years the economy of the capital has undergone an extraordinary transformation thanks to technology.

Veliaj underlined that present-day Tirana has an important information technology community.

He praised the graduation of 31 young people as opportunities that add to the capital to create businesses.

On his part, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Tirana Alastair King-Smith said that Tirana is leaving a mark for the future. “The things you are doing here in Tirana are wonderful and I think that Tirana will be a real footprint for the future. Also, it can be a technological laboratory not only for Southeast Europe, but part of the global network”, he stated.

The “Holberton School” CEO Migena Schroder praised Mayor Veliaj for supporting this initiative. The Municipality of Tirana has undertaken a series of initiatives for the education of young people with future jobs such as coding and has supported new start-ups in the field of information technology. /k.s/p.s./

Director of the Criminal Police Department in the State Police Tonin Vocaj appeared in a press conference together with the prosecutor of the Tirana Judicial District Elisabeta Imeraj to say that 35 people have been arrested, including the mastermind of this criminal event, the Israeli citizen Refael Genish.

The investigations showed that for several years a commercial entity under the name “RG Capital” was operating in the field of call centres. Thanks to the close cooperation with the partners it was managed the identification of the victims of this criminal activity outside the territory of the Republic of Albania.

35 citizens were arrested in flagrante delicto, one of whom was a foreigner, specifically the Israeli citizen Refael Genish, who from the investigations has turned out to be the organizer of this criminal activity, and 20 citizens are prosecuted at large.

Police seized as material evidence, 123 computer devices, 60 mobile phones, 3 laptops, 2 USBs, white cards similar to those of banks, a small amount of cannabis sativa.

Likewise, so far, there have been identified the personal data of many foreign nationals who have been used to contact these nationals and then lure them towards the computer fraud scheme, gaining different amounts of monetary values ​​which ranged from 500 Euros and above. The people contacted by this fraud scheme are over 2 million and are located in different countries of the world. /j.p/p.s./