At the request of the Italian authorities, the Durrës Prosecutor's Office has seized the properties of the businessman Gëzim Sallaku, who is accused of the criminal offense of "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity".
The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of Durrës General Jurisdiction, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office at the Ordinary Court of Brescia, Section of Autonomous Preventive Measures, requested the preventive seizure of the property of the GS citizen for the criminal offense "Cleaning the products of the offense criminal or criminal activity" provided by article 287 of the Criminal Code.
Through the letter from the Brescia First Instance Prosecutor's Office, it is requested, among other things, to implement the Decree from the Ordinary Court of Brescia, Section of Autonomous Preventive Measures, which orders the seizure of the following properties:
- Apartment-type real estate with an area of 48.8 m2 in the name of GS and SH;
- Apartment-type real estate with an area of 330 m2, registered in the name of GS and SH;
- Real estate of the arable type, with an area of 12,710 m2, purchased by GS;
- Real estate of the arable type, with an area of 7,890 m2, in the name of the citizen AL, purchased by GS;
- Real estate declared for legalization in the name of citizen GS, 3-storey building, with a construction area of 140 m2, built on a plot of 300 m2; AND
- Real estate declared for legalization, in the name of SS citizen, 2-story building, with construction area of 140 m2, built on a land area of 500 m2.
In the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Durrës, the criminal proceedings were registered in 2014, restarted in 2018, regarding the criminal offense "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity" provided for by Article 287 of Criminal Code. In the interest of this proceeding, with the decision of 2021, it was decided to assign the property insurance measure "Preventive Sequestration", for the assets of the GS citizen, etc., which also includes the above assets. At the end of the investigations, the citizen GS, etc. was taken as a defendant, and this criminal case was brought for trial on the letter in 2023.