Tirana Prosecution Office seized Tuesday the real estates, bank accounts, and 7 vehicles belonging to citizen Adem Metkola under investigation for the criminal offense "Laundering the proceeds of criminal offence or criminal activity" as provided for in Article 287 of the Criminal Code. 

Based on the information gathered and verifications conducted, this prosecution concluded that significant transfers have been made into the bank accounts of citizens A.M. and A.Xh. in second-tier banks in the Republic of Albania for the periods 2007-2008, 2015-2016, and 2020-2023. The transfers were made from the UK and the senders were foreign nationals, with no proven connection between them and the recipients. The bank transfers into their accounts were made without any accompanying description of the action. Regarding these transfers, citizen A.M. declared that the deposited amounts in his account were earnest money for the purchase of a real estate in Durrës, intended for the construction of a tourist resort to be jointly owned by both. 

Based on the ongoing investigations, the prosecution evaluated that precautionary seizure measures should be imposed since there are sufficient indications and evidence for reasonable suspicion that citizen A.M., in complicity with his former spouse, citizen A.Xh., has committed the criminal offense of "Laundering the proceeds of the criminal offence or criminal activity" as provided for in Article 287 of the Criminal Code.  The British citizen C.P. is also suspected to be involved in this scheme, having made transfers to the citizen under investigation and also having purchased with him jointly-owned assets in considerable amounts of money. 

In the transaction made for the purchase of the land property, citizen A.M. claimed that the income was family savings obtained as a result of emigration, whereas it turns out that this citizen was deported in 2007 and had not previously circulated these funds through the banking system, despite having returned from England around 20 years ago. For this reason, the prosecution seeks the imposition of precautionary seizure measures on the real estate:
• Property type "Land" with a total area of 363 m2 in Kamëz;
• Property type "Land" with a total area of 237 m2 in Kamëz; 
• Property type "Land" with a total area of 649 m2;
• Property type "Land" with a total area of 1,000 m2;
• Property type "Land" with a total area of 1,000 m2.

1.    Imposition of precautionary seizure measures on the bank accounts of citizen A.M. as well as on the bank accounts of citizen A.Xh.
2.    Imposition of precautionary seizure measure on assets such as vehicles owned by citizen A.M.: “Smart Micro Compact”; “Hummer H2”; “Suzuki Swift”, “Mazda 2500”; “BMW X6 Xdrive” 35D; “Mercedes Benz ML”, as well as on the vehicle “Range Rover Evoque”.