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Director of the Criminal Police Department in the State Police, Senior Director Tonin Vocaj, press conference regarding the police operation codenamed “Scheme”.
The police operation codenamed “SKEMA” is finalized, to crack down on criminal activity in the field of computer fraud.
Operation by the State Police, in cooperation with the German law enforcement authorities, under the direction of SPAK.
15 citizens are handcuffed, 35 citizens are prosecuted and 23 other citizens are declared wanted.
Hundreds of computer devices, telephone devices, cards, USBs and various documents were seized.
Unit C for the Investigation of Cybercrime in the Investigation Directorate in the Criminal Police Department in the General Directorate of State Police, in close cooperation with the German law enforcement authorities, under the direction of SPAK, within the investigation of criminal proceedings no.300 / 2021 and pursuant to Decision no. 359 dated 05.10.2021 of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, has developed and finalized the police operation codenamed “SKEMA”.
The Cybercrime Investigation Unit, based on the implementation of the letter received from the German law enforcement bodies, under the direction of the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized Crime, as well as with its German partners, has started investigations into a criminal activity. in the field of “Computer Fraud” which was related to the electronic fraudulent platforms “BrokerZ” and “Globalix” from 2018 onwards has committed fraud of many German citizens, benefiting from them significant amounts of money.
Investigations have shown that for several years, a commercial entity under the name “Blu energy call” conducted its activity in the field of telephone call centers or as it is known in our country “call center”. The close cooperation with the German partners managed to identify victims of this criminal activity outside the territory of the Republic of Albania.
Intensive investigations of several months conducted in our country made it possible to identify the leaders of this entity, the scheme of operation, as well as the area of cooperation of persons involved in this criminal activity.
From the investigative actions carried out, as well as from the police intervention in the subject “Bluenergycall” by the Cybercrime Investigation Unit supported by other structures of the Investigation Directorate in the Criminal Police Department, the police operation “SKEMA” was carried out.
During the operation, 8 premises were searched in which criminal activity was exercised in the field of cybercrime, in execution of the decision of the Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime in Tirana.
• 15 citizens involved in this criminal activity were detained.
• 35 citizens were prosecuted at large.
• 21 other citizens were declared wanted.
The above citizens were prosecuted for the criminal offense “Computer Fraud”, committed in collaboration in the form of a structured criminal group, provided by Articles 143 / b / 1, 333 / a, 334 and 28 point 4 of the Criminal Code.
In the quality of material evidence were seized: 200 computer devices, 120 Voip telephony devices, 1 laptop, 70 mobile phones, USB, various cards, documentation, etc.
The German law enforcement bodies, led by the Prosecutor from the Federal Republic of Germany and a team of cyber investigation structures, also took part in the police operation.
Also, so far the personal data of many foreign nationals have been identified which have been used to contact them and then lure them towards the computer fraud scheme by obtaining different amounts of monetary values. The contact persons are located in different countries of the world.
Unit C – Cybercrime Investigation, under the direction of the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime, is continuing intensive investigations to fully uncover this criminal activity.
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