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SPAK takes over the black file of "Bankers Petroleum Albania"!

2025-10-04 12:39:01Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
SPAK takes over the black file of "Bankers Petroleum Albania"!
"Bankers Petroleum Albania"

The Fier Prosecutor's Office has declared incompetence over the sensational file of the Chinese oil company, " Bankers Petroleum Albania ", transferring it to SPAK in Tirana. The reason is reported to be the involvement of high-ranking state officials, one of the biggest thefts of the Albanian state.

From the three-month investigation, it has emerged that senior state officials were involved in the Chinese affair with the black gold of the Albanian underground, causing the Fier Prosecutor's Office to declare incompetence and transfer the file to the higher prosecution body in the capital.

In the first days of July 2025, the Fier Prosecutor's Office ordered a surprise operation at the headquarters of the company "Bankers Petroleum Albania", issuing 14 security measures for employees. 9 measures were executed, 5 other citizens have been declared wanted.

The criminal proceeding was registered on 30.12.2024 and the investigations began after the referral from the Tax Investigation Directorate to the General Directorate of Taxes and after a 6-month investigation, also with proactive investigation methods, in close cooperation with the Tax Investigation Directorate, sufficient evidence was collected which creates reasonable suspicion that the elements of the figures of the criminal offenses for which this criminal proceeding was registered have been consumed.

It turned out that the company "Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd", from 2004 to the end of 2024, has been operating at a loss, which has meant that the Albanian state has not benefited from any income for 20 years from this activity, despite the fact that significant quantities of fuel have been extracted and traded in areas known to have oil reserves, Patos-Marinëz-Fier.

It was observed that the company has made exports and sales within the country from 2004 to 2024 in the amount of 532,433,614,112 lekë. It also results that the company has declared tax expenses in amounts that exceed the income from exports and sales, resulting in a loss in each fiscal year, where the total value for all periods is in the amount of 11,691,799,688 lekë.

From the investigation, it is suspected that the damage caused to the state budget, through VAT benefits, is in the millions of euros.

It is suspected that, throughout the entire period it has been operating, the company "Bankers Petroleum Albania Ltd" has fictitiously increased its expenses, in order to result in a loss in the annual balance sheet, and then has not paid any tax on the profit, but has benefited from VAT reimbursement through fraudulent schemes, assisted by other individuals and companies contracting with it, with various facilities and activities.

To achieve this goal, the company and its employees are suspected of falsifying various documents and carrying out financial operations of various natures with various operators and individuals both inside and outside Albania.

Investigations within the framework of this criminal proceeding continue as several different VAT fraud schemes, money laundering, etc. are suspected, in which many other individuals and companies are implicated.

The number one person at the company, Hongping Xiao, who had been managing Bankers Petroleum's activities for years, as well as its former director, Leonidha Çobo, were arrested.

Among those arrested is former finance sector manager Ardit Kero, otherwise known as the ex-husband of moderator Arbana Osmani. Ardit Kero is suspected of being a key figure in the tax evasion and money laundering scheme, illegal activities allegedly carried out by this company.


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