Special Prosecution against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPAK) has closed the investigations and sent the file of hydrocarbon businessman Rezart Taçi, his driver Bledar Lilo and brother-in-law Artur Balla to court. 

Rezart Taçi is accused together with four Italians and his two associates of money laundering and structured criminal group. 

According to the file, Taçi would launder about 18.4 million EUR of the Italian mafia in Albania. 

Investigations have found that it has turned out that the above citizens in collaboration with the Italian citizens Francesco Zummo, Fabio Petruzzella, Daniele Cestagalli and several other people, "in the form of a structured criminal group, have organized a complex illegal financial scheme, extending to several different countries, which had the purpose of "cleaning" a significant amount of money that is the product of criminal activity". 

SPAK revealed that from the investigations launched this year in cooperation with the Italian authorities, they have discovered the organization and operation of a complex international illegal financial operation, spread over several different countries, which had the purpose of "cleaning" a significant amount of money that constitutes a product of criminal activity. 

The financial scheme was directed by the two Italians Francesco Zummo and I.Z., in collaboration with another Italian Fabio Petruzzella, the Swiss of Italian origin Daniele Castagalli and the Albanian businessman Rezart Taçi involved in businesses in the oil sector. SPAK says that Taçi has engaged his two Albanian collaborators, Artur Balla and Bledar Lilo, in order to carry out this activity. 

Part of this financial scheme, with the help of the Albanians involved, was also the carrying out of some banking actions and transactions in a second-level bank in Albania,  which were only partially completed, according to SPAK. 

During the investigations, evidence was gathered that the help in this case for the transfer and concealment of the monetary amount was made against the promise of receiving a certain percentage of the monetary benefit, in relation to the monetary amount that was transferred to Albania and that would continue to be transferred to countries others. 

With the opening of "Taçi Oil" outlets, the owner Rezart Taçi, who is labeled in the foreign media as "the oil tycoon in Albania", climbed the ladder of success, building deposits in Shengjin and other places. During the time when Berisha was prime minister, he bought ARMO, the oil processing giant in Albania. 

He turned into one of the leading fuel businessmen. After some time, Taçi bought one of the most important televisions of the time, "TV Alsat". It received the final blow in 2013 when taxes blocked the ARMO hydrocarbon refinery. 

In 2016, Taçi was arrested in Switzerland by order of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the canton of Geneva in Switzerland, on charges of "fraud", "Forgery of documents" and "Forgery of seals and stamps or forms". 

The investigation started after the report of two companies, one registered in the Panamanian state under the name "Wallis Trading INC" and the Dutch one under the name "Trafigura Beheer BV", which had a commercial agreement signed with Rezart Taç's company in in 2009.