Press Release

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Durrës, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office at the Ordinary Court of Brescia, Section of Autonomous Preventive Measures, requested the preventive seizure of the property of the citizen G.S. for the criminal offense of "Laundering the proceeds of the offense criminal or criminal activity" provided by article 287 of the Criminal Code. 

The request for legal assistance in the criminal case was made by the judicial authorities of the Republic of Italy, based on the European Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Ratified by the Republic of Albania with Law No. 9871, dated 11.02.2008 ), as well as provided for according to the requirements of Article 506 of Criminal Procedural Code, as well as articles 14 and 20 of Law no. 10193, dated 03.12.2009 "On Jurisdictional Relations with foreign authorities in criminal cases".

Through the letter rogatory from the Breshia First Instance Prosecutor's Office, it is requested, among other things, that:
Based on Article 13 of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, signed during the Palermo Conference (December 12-15, 2000) and noting that Article 3 of the same Convention provides that it also applies to procedures preventive, to implement the Decree from the Ordinary Court of Brescia, Section of Autonomous Preventive Measures, ordering the seizure of the following properties:

- Apartment-type real estate with an area of 48.8 m2 in the name of G.S. and S.H.;

- Apartment-type real estate with an area of 330 m2, registered in the name of G.S. and S.H.;

- Real estate of the arable type, with an area of 12,710 m2, purchased by G.S.;

- Real estate of the arable type, with an area of 7,890 m2, in the name of the citizen A.L., purchased by G.S.;

- Real estate declared for legalization in the name of citizen G.S., 3-storey building, with a construction area of 140 m2, built on a plot of 300 m2; and

- Real estate declared for legalization, in the name of S.S. citizen, 2-story building, with construction area of 140 m2, built on a land area of 500 m2.

It is worth noting that in the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the Durrës General Jurisdiction, a criminal proceeding was registered in 2014, reinitiated in 2018, regarding the criminal offense of "Laundering the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity" provided by article 287 of the Criminal Code. In the interest of this proceeding, upon the decision of 2021, it was decided to assign the property security measure of "Preventive Sequestration", for the assets of the citizen G.S., etc., which also includes the above assets. At the end of the investigations, the citizen G.S., etc. was taken as a defendant, and this criminal case was brought for trial with a letter in 2023.