Businessman Accused for EUR 18 Mln Money Laundering Denies Accusations
Albanian businessman, Rezart Taçi has reacted after his international announcement by SPAK, under the accusation of criminal group and money laundering, calling them unfounded and incomprehensible, as he spoke for "Albanian Post".
Asked about the connection that SPAK talks about with the Italian businessman Francesco Zummo, the Albanian entrepreneur stated that he does not even know the 90-year-old and has no idea who he is.
The charges filed by the Special Prosecution against Organized Crime and Corruption, he stressed that he is not in Albania personally, but the further steps will be followed by his legal representatives.
"I do not understand how such an arrest warrant can be issued against me. There is no evidence, no fact. "It is a completely meaningless decision", declared Taçi.
While, on the decision, he stated that he will appeal immediately and has set in motion his lawyers on this issue.
This morning, Albaniandailynews.com followed the news of the mega operation between SPAK and the Italian Anti-mafia where in Albania were arrested 2 collaborators of the businessman Rezart Taçi who, according to information provided by SPAK, had become a guarantor for money laundering that Italian citizens had brought to Albania.
The arrested in Albania were Artur Balla and Bledar Lilo who is learned to be the driver of the businessman Taçi as it is about the seizure of 18 million euros which, according to investigations, were deposited in a bank in Tirana in order to carry out their cleaning and introduction. in shop.
For the businessman Rezart Taci, the detention was not possible because referring to the "TIMS" system, it turns out that he is not in Albania and is abroad. After the approval of the security measure and the checks that were made in the apartment or even other places where it was suspected that he could be, the police could not find him.
The structures were set in motion and with the orders of the businessman, the generals were sent to Interpol, being declared internationally wanted.
According to Italian media Francesco Zummo, a 90-year-old entrepreneur from Palermo, suspected as a partner of former mafia mayor Vito Ciancimino (died in 2002), ended up under house arrest on money laundering charges as part of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office Palermo and the Albanian Anti-Corruption Prosecution (SPAK).
Meanwhile, the accountant Fabio Petruzzella has been arrested, the brother of a magistrate from Palermo, an accountant living in Milan, is suspected of helping him to disappear 19 million euros from the confiscation, which were transferred to a bank account in Tirana.





