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"Bitcoin is used for money laundering", journalist 'deconstructs' the scheme of politicians and criminal groups

Politiko 2025-01-23 22:58:57

"Bitcoin is used for money laundering", journalist

SPAK announced yesterday that it had seized gold bars and a large amount of cryptocurrencies from a criminal group in Elbasan.

This action raised many questions in the public opinion about how SPAK, the police, and other law enforcement authorities can seize cryptocurrencies.

Regarding this, journalist Ferdinand Dervishi, invited to the studio of the show "Opinion" on TV Klan, "deconstructed" the scheme used by criminal groups, but also politicians, to launder money obtained from illegal activities.

Dervishi : Albania has it legal if you enter legal systems and work legally. The problem is that Albania does not have it legal as long as there is profit there, they will tax you. When you make these transactions, you leave nothing to the state, here in our country the simple exchanges that serve banks have turned into exchanges for bitcoin and many others. It does not work like that, in Europe and in the world they are exchanges only for this job. So these people who were arrested work illegally. There are two ways in Albania, crime and politics are interested in laundering their illegal money because a politician can receive 1 million dollars in tips for one thing and cannot justify it.

This money is attempted to be laundered through bitcoin. In Albania, you will contact a person in the black who takes on this work that has to do with abroad. Abroad, these exchanges are mainly the ones that do this work. Now how does an exchange work. They are like travel agencies that deposit a very large amount of lek in the bank for plane tickets and licensed exchanges block a very large amount of money in banks to work with bitcoin. They sell bitcoin, so the person in the black who takes this lek from the politician or the criminal to launder it starts with a discount from the beginning. And how is it laundered?! The moment they are bought, there is another part that is taken from your initial amount of money because here it is called the laundered part. If it is done in other classic ways that are done in Albania, it goes half and half of the transfer. Here we are again with a profit because less is taken.

These people take it upon themselves to make it untraceable like you have. To make it untraceable, they put it through a process that divides this amount and puts it into their global circulation, and when it comes, it comes with changed codes. So that if it is traced, that bitcoin comes out clean. So this is the cleaning process, they are no longer traceable.