Durres Hotel Owned by Crime-Affiliated Businessman Confiscated
Special Prosecution against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) has announced that the "Ador Resort" hotel owned by businessman Admir Hoxha, has been confiscated by the state.
In its announcement, the Special Anti-Corruption Structure informs that the value of this property is 5 million EUR and is located in Rinas.
“This confiscated property worth 5 (Five) Million Euros passes to the Albanian state! The hotel belonged to a structured criminal group that dealt with international drug trafficking", notified the SPAK.
The court decided to seize this resort on February 4, 2019. Initially, the investigation was launched on November 14, 2016 by the Kavaja Prosecutor's Office.
Admir Hoxha was declared internationally wanted after he fled Albania 9 days before the police finalized the operation to seize the heroin laboratory in Has, October 19, 2018. According to the Prosecution, Hoxha cooperated with Shijak's group, while the gang was hit at the beginning of of October.
Hoxha was labeled as the originator of the creation of the laboratory discovered in Brenog of Has about 1 week ago, has been declared internationally wanted by the state police.
According to the information from the investigative group, for handcuffing the businessman, the blue uniforms have asked for the cooperation of their counterparts, German and Italian, to follow in Hoxha's footsteps.
But, the inventor and the person who had created the megaloborator for processing heroin Admir Hoxha together with two Turkish experts and a Kosovar, left our country a few days before the operation where 27 people ended up in handcuffs and 44 arrest warrants were issued.
The main clues that were being investigated by the Serious Crimes Prosecution is that the purchase of heroin and then its distribution was done by a structured criminal group, Avdulaj from Shijak. Saimir Gjipali and Hekuran Hoxha were also contractors with other members of the group, such as in Lezha, Fier and Saranda.
Earlier, the prosecution body has started the property verification, while the family members of Admir Hoxha will pass through the site of the "anti-mafia" law. According to the Directorate of Money Laundering, the commercial activity of the businessman Hoxha will be seen, as well as the immovable assets which, according to the prosecution, may have been derived from some illegal activity. The names of two former deputies of the Socialist Party, Arben Ndoka and Arben Çuko, also emerged from the interceptions of the prosecution.