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32 police officers, including the director of the Morina Border Crossing Point, are charged with the prenatal offense of “Passive Corruption”.
Following the investigation, at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, 34 security measures were imposed on persons and employees of the Kukës Border Police, with various functions within the Kukës Border and Migration Directorate.
Personal security measures are:
‶ Prison arrest ‶ for 17 people (police officers)
‶ Home arrest ‶, for 14 people (citizens and police officers)
‶ Suspension from duty ‶, 3 persons (police officer)
The criminal proceedings started after the report from the SHCBA on suspicions of involvement of some of the police officers at the Morina Border Crossing Point in illegal activities for the criminal offenses “Passive corruption of persons exercising public functions”, “Smuggling of goods, for which they are paid excise tax ”, as well as“ Assistance for illegal border crossing ”, etc.
The Special Prosecution Office, in cooperation with the Internal Affairs and Complaints Service and the General Directorate of State Police, has conducted proactive investigations, using special investigative methods. Investigations were also conducted in coordination and in cooperation with the Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo.
During the investigation, the illegal activity of the State Police employees in the Local Directorate for Border and Migration, Kukës, during the service at the Morinë Border Crossing Point, Kukës, was documented. The illegal actions consisted of numerous corruption cases committed in continuity during the exercise of duty by these employees, forcing Albanian and foreign citizens to pay different amounts of money for the passage from Albania to Kosovo and vice versa.
The investigation documented 312 episodes of corrupt actions of police officers, who favored various persons for the importation of smuggled goods; persons who trafficked vehicles, other illegal items; helped to cross the border various persons with legal problems for their entry and exit in EU countries, in terms of fictitious registrations for entry and exit into Albanian territory; as well as helping other persons who had problems with the law, who were not registered in the TIMS system, as their travel to Kosovo and vice versa was not allowed “, it is said in the announcement of SPAK.
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