Three people were arrested as part of the operation conducted by the State Police, under the coordination of the Public Prosecutor of Pordenone, in synergy with the Albanian Police and the Special Prosecutor Against Corruption and Organized Crime "Spak" of Tirana.
Investigators defeated an organization specializing in scams through fake online trading . The criminal scheme was particularly complex and money laundering took place in several EU member countries, including Cyprus, Lithuania, Estonia, Holland and Germany , with conversion into cryptocurrencies.
The precautionary measures and search decrees were carried out against Albanian citizens, all residing in Tirana. They would have defrauded several hundred Italians : the amount of the fraud is several million euros.
At the end of the investigations, two call centers with more than 60 workstations equipped with personal computers and two servers connected to the workstations were seized; at the same time, a server used by the organization to obfuscate its computer traces and hinder investigations was seized in Italy.
(Unioneonline / ss)