Details from the SPAK file/ Artur Shehu's meetings in Aruba with traffickers, how cocaine money was invested in towers and resorts

Laundering cocaine money through construction companies in Tirana and the coast was the next discovery by SPAK that led to the request to send 15 people to prison and 5 others to house arrest, among them businessmen.

Only 4 people were arrested in Friday's operation, including construction businessman Ilir Shtufi, who was captured in Greece.

In the investigative file, it appears that this criminal group, in the time frame of 2018-2021, had held frequent meetings abroad, in Aruba and Spain, but also in Monaco and Germany, between traffickers and businessmen, where the key point is businessman Artur Shehu to coordinate actions for drug trafficking, the logistics of cocaine trafficking in Latin America, land transactions in the capital and the coast, as well as development projects for towers and tourist resorts.

The people under investigation have also had communications about contacts with senior state officials, but SPAK does not mention specific names.

"These meetings appear to be related to real estate projects in Albania, potentially financed with illicit funds, with the support of political authorities," the file states.

Initially, the money was physically transported to Albania through the Hawala system. Then came the manipulation of ownership, mainly through the falsification of historical documents, as in the case of the lands in Zvërnec.

Once the property was acquired, it was divided up and passed from hand to hand so that it could be lost track of, and the final stage was to give this land for development, thus integrating and mixing illegal income with legal income. The prosecution has documented this mode of operation in a tower in Tirana and several villas in Palasa.

The prosecution has identified massive forgeries with coastal lands and money laundering from international cocaine trafficking in towers being built in Tirana and in other development projects, including lands in Zvërnec, where the much-discussed resort is expected to be built.

The prosecution adds that the land in Zvërnec is suspected of having been moved towards the coast and that the manner in which it was transferred to Artur Shehu occurred by falsifying historical documents.

For this reason, the GJKKO imposed a preventive seizure on the amounts generated from the transaction with the company “Albania Land Development”, managed by Redi Struga and owned by two Qatari brothers, Al Khayyat. The amount seized in this decision is around 128 million euros, divided into three payments.

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