General Prosecutor's Office: 100 million euros seized in 6 months

About 100 million euros have been seized in the first six months of the year by general jurisdiction prosecutors throughout the country.

In a press release from the General Prosecutor's Office, it is stated that, only during the month of June, the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction in Tirana seized 50 million euros of assets of some commercial entities for the criminal offense of 'Cleaning the products of the criminal offense or of criminal activity'.

Meanwhile, in the last month, this prosecutor's office also seized 10 million euros of assets in bank accounts within the framework of investigations into the fraud scheme of lending, administrators of financial entities.

Seizures of large monetary values, from 2 to 35 million euros, were also carried out by the prosecutors of general jurisdiction in Fier and Vlora.

More specifically, the Prosecutor's Office of the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Vlora placed in preventive seizure in Himarë real estate with a total value of 35 million euros. Assets suspected to have been obtained with forged documents.

While in the Prosecutor's Office near the Court of First Instance of the Fier General Jurisdiction, only in one of the last investigations of this institution were seized assets worth 2 million euros which were suspected to originate from criminal activity.

In the same line, the prosecution offices of the general jurisdiction in Durrës, Elbasan, Saranda, Lezhë, Gjirokastër and Korçë, have seized in the first six months of this year, other movable and immovable assets such as property, cars as well as subjects of different commercial.