Hundreds of citizens are suspected of having fallen prey to online pyramid schemes, who have lost their investments on platforms like XEUC. However, the file provided by Shqiptarja.com states that employees of the Municipality of Divjaka have also fallen victim to this scheme. The file talks about the role of Ereledio Shebeku, who after the operation undertaken by the Fier Police has been declared wanted along with his wife, Alma Shebeku, both 35 years old. The file states that Shebeku has the role of the main managers of the group. The young man communicated on telegram with a person named "Leo Smith", who is suspected of being British and coordinating the fraudulent scheme. Citizens invest from 1 thousand to 5 thousand dollars.
"Through the "Telegram" application, a cryptocurrency trading platform is installed, which is called "XUEX". On this online page, this citizen has opened a group of five people, where each of them invests monetary values ????in amounts ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 dollars. Citizen Ereledio Shebeku, through this application, receives messages from a person identified as "Leo Smith", who is suspected of being a British citizen, inviting all participants to enter this platform at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. every day, asking them to "like" the pages that this citizen sends to the "Telegram" application, the file states.
From this investment, all people who play on this platform and like it benefit from the amount of 1% of their investment. So every day they increase their investment by 1% of the invested value. The investment they have on the phone on the “XUEX” platform, the amount they want to withdraw and transfer to an account in “Binance Bank” and from this account they transfer this amount to their accounts in second-tier banks in Albania and then withdraw money regularly, where the bank charges you a commission for these withdrawals and gives you a copy of the withdrawal mandate. All participants who have registered on this platform, deposit the money into their bank accounts with the claim that they want to invest in the sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies and online purchases.
According to information from the Divjaka Municipality, about 580 people have registered on this platform, who have invested amounts ranging from 1,000 (one thousand) dollars to 5,000 (five thousand) dollars, and the income earned on this platform is withdrawn every 45 days.
Ereledio Shebeku, has introduced his family members and many other people to this platform. Brunilda Ndini, an employee of the Municipality of Divjaka, has also been introduced to this platform. She has also been arrested after introducing her family members, employees of the Municipality of Divjaka, but also residents of the city of Divjaka, as well as from the villages of the Tërbuf Administrative Unit, to this scheme. Many of these people have applied to this platform with their family members such as wives, children and brothers.