
A 54-year-old man was arrested by the Elbasan police on charges of fraud. Official sources say that the arrested person was under investigation for 3 months, following a report made by a woman.
To the latter, he allegedly took 1.2 million ALL with the claim that he was a lawyer and would represent the case of her husband, who was in prison, in court.
" As a result of the quarterly investigation, followed with proactive methods, within the coded police operation "Manipulation", the citizen MK, 54 years old, resident in Tirana, was arrested by the Elbasan Judicial District Court, with the decision dated 23.01.2023, has assigned the security measure "Arrest in prison", for the criminal offense "Fraud", with serious consequences. From the investigative actions, it is suspected that the 54-year-old man took 1,200,000 new ALL from a citizen, with the claim that he was a lawyer and that he would legally represent, in the Court, the case of her husband, who was serving his sentence in IEVP Drenovë ", Elbasan police said in a press release.