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"You should leave a coffee...", the conversations between the customs officers arrested at the Qafë Bota border crossing turned into a blur, as the Greek pressured the Albanian: Don't shout because...

2025-07-06 17:54:21Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

After the finalization of a police operation, it became possible to arrest 14 customs officers in Qafë Botë, who are accused of involvement in an organized criminal group and accepting bribes in collaboration.

According to what Greek authorities previously announced, 7 men and 7 women, including the head of customs, received illegal financial benefits in exchange for not carrying out customs controls.

Meanwhile, recently, telephone conversations that customs employees had with each other have also been revealed.

In one of the conversations, a customs officer forces an Albanian citizen crossing the border to pay the sum of 150 euros, instead of imposing a fine of 3 thousand euros on him.

"Come here, come here. I won't take 200. Go get 150... I'll throw the paper away. Tear it up, go get 150 euros, tear it up and go. When will you come back, so we can ask a good question?... I'll put you to work on Tuesday," the officer tells the Albanian, while in another leaked conversation it is clearly proven how customs officers avoid issuing fines in order to benefit from various amounts.

Below are excerpts from the leaked conversations:

Older employee: … and later you will be in… I think Mr. K. told you…

New employee: Yes, yes, he told me.

AY: Slowly, slowly, whatever pocket you want

NY: Yes, yes, he explained it to me.

AY: … that's why the difference is always double or triple, so that it's a group decision, so that we don't find ourselves exposed.

Employee: Hello, who are you? (ed. she means which vehicle)

Citizen: I am Peugeot.

CY: Okay, do you have anything in there?

P: None of…. A little cheese, a little greens, a little….

CY: Do you have any oil?

P: Yes, yes….

CY: How much?

P: Ten liters.

CY: Ten or twenty? If I come and you have more than ten, what are we going to do?

Q: … How much did it weigh…

CY: I asked you yes, I know it's forbidden. I asked you how many liters it is, tell me ten and I'll tell you if I come to the car and find eleven what will happen and you tell me I didn't weigh it.

Male employee: What's wrong?

CY: How much do you have, I ask you… And you have oil, and you have cheese, and you have meat.

AY: Did you see the car?

CY: … no, I'm still negotiating what it is.

AY: Bring it so I can see it… we'll discuss the rest.

CY: Open it a little so my colleague can see it.

AY: Come on, sir, are you here? Leave a coffee and go, leave a coffee and go.

Q: Should I leave?

AY: Leave us a coffee and let's go... okay, he said, ten liters, and you have thirty in there? Come in, come in. Don't let him see you... leave us a coffee and let's go.

CY: How much did he have?

AY: There were thirty liters of diesel.

CY: I was sure there weren't ten, so I said if I go outside and find eleven, what will happen? Tell me how many you have before I come, I said.

AY: You said ten liters and there were thirty inside… Haha… Was the scale that wrong?

P: … years with cancer…

AY: Come on, come on, hello hello

CY: Fifty.

AY: What did he leave? What… Oh! M… Hahaha

In another conversation, two employees are... dividing it between them and talking about an amount of about 250 euros that they took with them.

Employee: Don't complain at all, today was a very good day.

Employee: Well done, S…

AY: It's one of those, we were good but not great, right?

CY: Of course.

AY: Twelve and a half.

CY: Good again.

"Tsakis, bring the money"

Employee: You have been in Greece for 7 months.

Citizen: How?

Y: Seven months in Greece.

P: A cousin brought it.

Y: He doesn’t have… He has a violation. If I confiscate the car, I will fine you three thousand. Leave your things, bring the car here and… the car alone. You have a violation. You can’t stay in Paxos for that long. With an Albanian car…. However, you have a violation because you are a Greek citizen. You don’t have the right to have an Albanian car. You work and live in Paxos… Wherever I catch you… Traditional Greek dishes.

P: Excellent, okay.

Y: Sit down, sit on the chair, because we're going to have a problem here, you're not coming…. You're going to leave my car here…. Has it been seven months?

P: No no!

Y: Tell the truth now, I'll lick you. Don't scream now, the cops are listening. Are you seven months old?

P: No, seven!

Y: Six?

P: Somewhere there…

Y: Do you know how much money this is? Now sit down, sit down. In my life, do you know how much money this is? Over 3,000.

Q: Okay?

Y: Yes…. Go to the car. Go get 150 euros, don't yell now, or I'll tell you 200. I'm not paying off the car.

Q: Will I go?

Y: Come here, come here. I won't take 200. Go get 150… I'll throw the paper away. Tear it up, go get 150 euros, tear it up and go. When are you going to come back, so we can ask a good question?… I'll put you to work on Tuesday.

P: It's done, it's done.

Y: … However, don't stay longer than six months…

Q: No.

Y: I won't tell you anything, you'll tell me you're going to Igoumenitsa. Where are you going, I'll ask you.

P: I will go to Igoumenitsa.

Y: You're telling me that I'm going to Igoumenitsa.

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