Fraud scheme with a call center in Tirana, the Israeli and 38 Albanians are sent for trial

The Prosecutor's Office of Tirana has sent an Israeli, Rafael Genish, and 38 Albanians to trial after they are accused of being involved in a call center fraud scheme.

They allegedly caused a damage of 2 million euros.

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They created a call center fraud scheme, the Tirana Prosecutor's Office sends the Israeli citizen and 38 Albanians to court for 'Computer Fraud' and 'Cleaning of products'

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, completed the investigations and sent to court, the criminal proceeding no. 6055 year 2021 for the commission of the criminal offense "Computer fraud", carried out in cooperation, more than once, provided by article 143/b-2 of the Criminal Code and "Cleaning of the Products of the criminal offense or criminal activity" of provided by article 287 of the Criminal Code.

The three-year investigation, carried out with special methods, was carried out in cooperation with the partner services of European countries, and the damage caused amounts to over 2 million euros.

The investigation was initiated in cooperation with the German authorities of Braunschweig for computer fraud for profit reasons by means of fictitious platforms "CFD-Tradingplattform" and "FX-Leader" etc. During the investigation, it was proven that transfers of high monetary values ​​were made to a call center with the name "Capital SHPK 1001" with the address Rruga Him Kolli, behind the Golden City Hotel, Tirana, where only in one case a total of 254,990 was transferred. .00 euros in different accounts of the "fx-leader.com" platform.

All the transfers of this scheme were encouraged by the perpetrators of this criminal offense to consider investing their assets in a profitable way, among other things through online and social media advertising.

As soon as the victim registered on the fraud platform with first name, last name, email and phone number, the perpetrators immediately contacted them by phone and a relationship of trust was created with the alleged "customer". Initially, victims are tempted to invest in small amounts with the promise that the alleged broker of the investment site would make a large profit by investing in stocks and cryptocurrencies.

The website "fx-leader.com" fictitiously engaged in business in the field of financial transactions with so-called binary options. For this purpose, call centers were specially created, through which "customers" were contacted by a personal financial consultant, to entice them to make high investments.

All profits and losses were stimulated virtually. A corresponding algorithm caused initial profits to induce participants to invest large sums of money. When the affected person asked to receive his earnings or deposits, this was not possible. As originally intended, the system was built in such a way as to keep the affected people hooked until enough money was illegally obtained, and then the sites were shut down.

From the investigations, it was possible to document all the illegal criminal activity, also evidencing the way of operation of this center where user accounts were found on https://www.paypal.com and https://www.coinbase.com servers which serve to create and manage an online profile/account in order to make various transfers in different currencies to other online profiles/accounts, in the "TradingView" application that serves to analyze trading ideas in the markets globally, on the Binance and Coinbase application which is a cryptocurrency wallet, on the https://www.binance.com and https://www.coinbase.com servers, on the 'Crypto.com' application which serves as a wallet where you can to trade different cryptocurrencies.

Files with documents in excel format were also seized, which contain lists of names, contacts (email, phone number) of foreign citizens and are used to call and entice them for fictitious investments.

The fraud scheme was run by Israeli national RG, and a group of employees.

Also, 12 Letters of Order were compiled in different countries of Europe, and among them, of interest to the investigation is the one from the Czech Republic, where from the statements received from Czech citizens who are suspected to have been contacted by the entity RG Capital, we single out that of the Czech citizen JL who stated that in the period January-February 2021 he was contacted by phone by financial intermediaries who instructed him to make investments in bitcoin and after the investments made by him in the amount of 285,000 CZK. After that, the financial intermediary cut off communications with him and the Czech citizen JL did not receive the money invested in BTC.

The cleaning of these monetary values ​​was carried out through fictitious transfers with fictitious invoices in banks of countries such as Lithuania, India, Singapore, Hungary, Estonia, Malta, etc., countries that are at risk for money laundering activity through their banking system.

For this reason, the Israeli citizen RG, with Israeli citizenship and nationality, was charged with the criminal offense of "Computer Fraud", carried out in collaboration, more than once, provided for by Article 143/b-2 of the Code Penal and "Cleaning of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity" article 287 of the Criminal Code as well as 38 Albanian citizens for "Computer fraud", carried out in cooperation, on more than once, provided by article 143/b-2