250 million euro turnover/ The moment of Sarandjoti's arrest in Greece, he cleaned the dirty money of criminals

2023-06-07 15:37:20Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

250 million euro turnover/ The moment of Sarandjoti's arrest in Greece, he

Thanas Thoma Bako alias Athanasios Sebastian Bako , 52 years old, from Saranda, was arrested on May 31 by the Greek police, as for Europol he is considered one of the "big fish" of laundering money derived from international drug trafficking.

The details of the operation were made public yesterday by the Greek police and media, this is exactly the moment when Thanas Bako is arrested by Greek police agents.

He drives his motorcycle out of the parking lot of the complex where he lived and is signaled by agents wearing fluorescent vests to stop.

After he stops, they surround him and handcuff him. As seen in the video, there is a moment of opposition, but then the 52-year-old surrenders.

But who is the 52-year-old from Saranda:

Bako's profile is not unknown to the local police. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he was considered a character with strong connections in Saranda with international drug traffickers, mainly marijuana, from Albania to Greece. However, he has a clean criminal record in Albania.

In 1998, however, it turns out to have happened in Canada, where it turns out to be a co-shareholder with the citizen Th. P from Saranda, in the investment company "Quebec Inc." which has its activity until 2012. Bako then developed his activity in Greece, but apparently, without ever severing ties with the world of crime. In recent years, Bako turns out to be the owner of 99% of the shares in a Real Estate company in Greece.

This company owns his luxury apartment in Glifadha, where he was arrested, as well as several apartments bought in Dafni and Ilioupoli. Through this company, it turns out that he laundered the money of drug cartels, mainly from the Netherlands and Belgium.


Ai rezulton se u jepte udhëzime korrierëve se ku t’i merrnin e çonin paratë dhe duke përfshirë dhe konvertimin në kriptovaluta, kryente pastrimin e tyre dhe transferimin në shtete off shore dhe kryesisht në Dubai. Autoritetet holandeze kanë mbërritur deri tek emri i Bakos pas shkatërrimit të disa grupeve kriminale, nga komunikimet e të cilave përmes aplikacioneve të enkriptuara, kanë zbuluar një emër të koduar i cili më pas rezultoi të ishte pikërisht sarandjoti 52-vjeçar.

Sipas hetimeve të deritanishme, ai rezulton të ketë qarkulluar rreth 250 milionë euro brenda 10 muajve, para të ardhura nga trafiku i drogës. Autoritetet holandeze kanë informuar homologët grekë, të cilët pasi e kanë ndjekur për 6 muaj Bakon, e kanë prangosur me qëllim ekstradimin në Holandë, edhe pse sipas burimeve do i nënshtrohet edhe një hetimi në Greqi pasi ka dyshime edhe për pastrim parash në këtë shtet.

Gjatë kontrollit të banesës së tij, policia greke gjeti dhe sekuestroi shuma parash në kartëmonedha me origjinë nga vende të ndryshme, mes të cilave euro, dollarë amerikanë, dollarë kanadezë, dollarë australianë, franga zvicerane, lira turke, Dirhemë të Emirateve të Bashkuara Arabe dhe Rand të Afrikës së Jugut si dhe dy ora luksoze. U sekuestruan edhe telefona celularë, përfshirë një celular që përdoret për biseda të koduara përmes aplikacioneve speciale, një tabletë, një disk dixhital dhe karta SIM, të cilat janë dërguar në Holandë për ekzaminim laboratorik pas miratimit të dhënë nga autoritetet gjyqësore.

Bako in Greece low profile, in TIMS it turns out that
52-year-old Thanas Bako does not have a biometric passport, it turns out that he last moved from Albania to Greece, at least legally, in 2010 through a transit permit, while through a passport of old, in 2009. He does not possess a biometric passport according to the TIMS system, while the suspicions are that he may have come to Albania later through the illegal crossing from the green border in the Konispol area.

In Greece, he kept a low profile and rode around on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, even though his apartment in Glifadha was luxurious. His arrest by the Greek authorities was carried out on May 31 but was made public by two communiques of Europol and the Greek Police on June 6. He has no criminal record in Greece and Albania.


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