Press Release

Prosecution Office Fier has identified 7 customs official, including the former deputy/General Director of Customs, and has ordered their arrest after gaining the permission from the court, as responsible of the offense of “abuse of office”, for extinction of 4.4 million liters of “Virgin” diesel from company’s deposits “Tea Construction & Petrol”, managed by Adrian Xhillari, against whom is also issued the arrest warrant, since the latter is suspected of the offense “Smuggling goods to which excise duty is applied”.

Prosecution Office of Serious Crime has received the permission of the Court to arrest the citizen Haxhi Giu, with the function of “Prosecutor” at the Kruje District Prosecution Office, suspected on committing the offense “Passive corruption…of prosecutor…”, provided by Article 319/ç of the Criminal Code.

Prosecution Office of Serious Crime has received the permission of the Court to arrest the citizen Petrit Vukaj, with the function of “Prosecutor” at the Fier District Prosecution Office, suspected on committing the offense “Passive corruption…of prosecutor…”, provided by Article 319/ç of the Criminal Code.

Prosecution Office of Tirana has ordered the detention of some citizens, including the owner of a pharmaceutical warehouse, leaders of this warehouse, some pharmacists and officials of the Regional Healthcare Fund, Tirana, suspected of being involved in a huge fraud scheme of medicines reimbursement.

At the request of the Prosecution Office of Tirana (Task Force Unit), following a joint investigation with the Sector of Investigation at the General Department of Taxation, the court decided the security measure for 5 persons, directors and representatives of the oil company “FULLPET”, suspected of being involved in a financial fraud scheme, avoiding payment of debits to the state in the amount of about 500 million ALL.

Prosecution Office for Serious Crime has decided the extent of preventive seizure of 2.1 million square meters of forest land, arable land and land in the tourist area in Fier, including also 1700 square meters building, as well as 3 private companies, all in the name of the citizen Fatmir Kajolli or his family, as there are reasonable suspicions that these assets are created on the basis of his criminal activity for which he was convicted in Italy.

At least 45 candidates, mostly judicial police officers, were included on Thursday (dt. 29.10.2015) at the testing for new prosecutors, who will fill 9 vacancies on some Prosecution Offices of basic level.

General Prosecutor of the Republic of Albania, Mr. Adriatik Llalla, is discussing with the high investigative authorities of Spain on the possibilities to strengthen further the cooperation in facing together the challenges of international crime.

General Prosecutor's Office of Albania and the General Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina are totally agree to cooperate together in the fight against international and transnational organized crime, economic crime and corruption, illegal use of criminal assets, international terrorism and crimes related with it, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and values protected by international law