File / Couple took out a loan to furnish their apartment, MCA "devoured" their three-story building, car and bank accounts

The name of the late Pal Trashaj, who sought help from justice over the years and then ended his life, is one of the names of citizens that the Tirana prosecution includes in the long list of citizens who were harmed by the fraudulent microcredit scheme that is suspected of operating as a criminal group.

In the file investigated by Antoneta Sevdari, Ndini Tavani and Arben Agovi and which is now being reviewed by special prosecutors in Tirana, who will soon request a reassessment of personal measures, cases of citizens being threatened for re-taking loans are mentioned.

One of them is the testimony of the couple Kozeta and Pajtim Sinomati who in 2009 took out a loan of 500 thousand lek to furnish their apartment. But the MCA then took away their three-story apartment, seized their vehicle and bank accounts. When questioned by the prosecution, they tell how they started repaying the loan but never got out of this trap, while their persecution continued even by the bailiffs without telling them that in the meantime it had been placed under sequestration and was published in the auction, Top Channel reports.

In this way, there are suspicions that the assets of 1,700 citizens were taken, which from the property of citizens became the property of MCA and Final.

The number of people who have passed through SPAK is 17 suspects, among them Olsi Ibro who at the height of the investigation ended his life. All suspects are considered members of the criminal group that must be investigated by SPAK. But also under investigation for the same scheme is a bailiff's office suspected of fraud with serious consequences, as well as micro credit Albania, Adca and Final.

The group says SPAK was not created by chance and that they had a structure that lasted nine years.

Among the analyses listed, the three prosecutors who declared incompetence emphasize the fact that citizens who were often pushed to take out a second loan to close the first one, had loan interests amount to 700 percent per year.