
Durrës Police have finalized an operation in Durrës after a four-week investigation to crack down on a criminal group that exploited girls and women brought from China for prostitution.
The blue uniforms have handcuffed Chinese citizen Guangtai Lin and have announced a search for the two organizers, Guangcheng Lin and Yanxia Zhang.
From the investigative actions, it results that the trio in question recruited Chinese nationals in collaboration with several other citizens in Vietnam, still unidentified, and sent them to engage in prostitution in Albania, where they provided apartments and rental cars for carrying out this activity.
Seven Chinese nationals who practiced prostitution were also prosecuted.
Police announcement:
Specialists of the Sector for the Investigation of Illegal Trafficking of the Durrës Local Police Directorate, after a month-long investigation using proactive methods, in cooperation with the Durrës Prosecutor's Office, for the criminal offenses "Exploitation of prostitution" and "Prostitution", finalized the police operation codenamed "Storm", which took place in neighborhood no. 13, Plazh, Durrës.
As part of this operation, citizen GL, 50 years old, born in China, was arrested in flagrante delicto, suspected of committing the criminal offense of "Exploitation of prostitution".
Criminal proceedings have been initiated against 7 Chinese nationals for the criminal offense of "Prostitution".
Chinese citizen GL, 47 years old, one of the organizers of the group, and Chinese citizen Y. Zh., 45 years old, manager of the group, were declared wanted for the criminal offense of "Human trafficking ."
The investigations revealed that this criminal group was represented in Albania by Guangtai Lin, who managed and controlled the finances of Chinese citizens who carried out criminal activity in Albania.
He sent the sums of money gained from this criminal activity to Yanxia Zhang, who lives in Bahrain and divides the money earned.
It turns out that she took 25% of the profit for herself, 35% went to the group that ran the criminal activity from Vietnam, and 40% went to the girls recruited as wages at the bank.
As material evidence, sums of money obtained from prostitution, 13 cell phones, 1 laptop, 1 notebook with notes on the monetary values obtained, and other items were seized.