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A bank to launder drug money in Italy, among the clients are Albanian gangs

2026-06-20 16:20:27Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

A bank to launder drug money in Italy, among the clients are Albanian gangs

Three criminal organizations, one of which is Albanian, have been circulating money through an illegal bank, recently discovered in Prato, Italy. The bank had an annual turnover of between 80-100 million euros per year and used the untraceable havala system, also known as chop-chop. 

Through it, money from drug trafficking inside and outside Italy, as well as illegal immigration, has circulated. 

Italian media  report that the bank served the Sacra Corona Unita, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra clans, as well as Albanian criminal gangs. 

The money circulating in this bank was mainly black market payments for drugs and textile goods between Chinese companies. The investigation coordinated by the Florence prosecutor's office has led to 17 people being jailed and 16 others being placed under house arrest. In total, 57 people are under investigation, mainly Chinese, Italian and Albanian.

At the head of the illegal bank, according to investigators, was a 50-year-old Chinese man with numerous criminal records, accused of participating in a criminal conspiracy aimed at drug trafficking in Veneto.

The havala system is a virtual mechanism, used by Italian and Albanian clans, which allows money to be transferred "virtually" without having to be transported from sender to recipient, from one country to another. 

The groups in question relied on a dense network of money-collecting couriers who, traveling between Italy and abroad - Spain, France and Portugal - made payments from abroad, withdrawing funds from illegal trafficking.

To prevent the circulation of drug money - with the risk of seizure during police checks in various countries - the transactions were carried out using funds generated by the cash flows of Chinese textile and clothing companies, based on the relationships between the industries of Prato - the main textile district in Europe - and the production centers in the Iberian Peninsula (clothing firms in Madrid, Malaga, Valencia and Seville).

Investigators uncovered a close business connection between the organization's senior management - who acted as middlemen - and Albanian groups who needed to launder drug trafficking proceeds and who were its "clients." 


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