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Documents/ Këlliçi denounces the scandal: Jet Bank's connection to the 200 million euro Call Center scheme

Documents/ Këlliçi denounces the scandal: Jet Bank's connection
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Democratic MP Belind Këlliçi has published documents from the German Interior Ministry that cast strong doubts on the licensing of Jet Bank by the Bank of Albania.

In a post alongside the documents, Këlliçi writes that the main shareholder of Jet Bank with 71% of shares is the Cypriot company "Constador LTD", run by Oliver Hemmer, who turns out to be an associate of Gal Barak, convicted in Austria for a 200 million euro fraud scheme with Call Centers.

"Today I am publishing official documents from the German Interior Ministry, which shed light on the serious threat to our banking system from the licensing of JET BANK, where a chain of relationships between several individuals can no longer be treated as administrative coincidences. According to them, citizen Oliver Hemmer is the Managing Director of the company GRF Europe OU, which operated on behalf of the company 4XFX, owned by Israeli citizen Gal Barak.

The latter was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Austria, after setting up a fraud scheme with Call Centers with an estimated damage of around 200 million euros in several European countries such as England, Austria, Germany, Spain, etc. In another document it is clearly seen that Oliver Hemmer is also the director of the company registered in Cyprus, Constador LTD. This company is the owner with 71% of JET BANK, the first online bank in Albania", writes Këlliçi.

The MP raises the question of whether the Bank of Albania has failed to verify the integrity of these individuals. According to him, there is a risk that Albania will become a hub for money laundering through the banking system.

"The Bank of Albania has licensed these individuals to open the first online bank in the country, raising serious questions about the verification standards and integrity of the process. But, more than that, the question that is being asked today is not whether there has been a legal violation, but beyond that, are we allowing Albania to evolve from an operational base of call centers that extort European citizens, into a hub for laundering this money?!", continues the DP MP.

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