New details have emerged from the investigative file of the Special Prosecution Office, SPAK, in which well-known figures in international cocaine trafficking, including Eldi Dizdari alias Matoshi, Dritan Gjika, Shpëtim Aliu, Armando Pecani and others, have been declared wanted by the State Police.
From communications obtained from the “Sky” application, SPAK found that at first the brothers Shpëtim alias Salvatore Aliu and Isa Aliu focused on the “Road Hause” supermarket business, with the aim of laundering money obtained from drug trafficking.
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According to the investigative material, they set up a network of markets, but the result was not what they had expected. In one of the “Sky” conversations, Shpëtim Aliu tells Isa Aliu: “…with the supermarkets you made me lose 3 million euros, get into construction…”.
Sources close to SPAK say that this conversation indicates that the money secured from cocaine trafficking had initially been planned to circulate and be legitimized through the supermarket business.
However, the Aliu brothers quickly realized that this activity was causing them considerable losses, which according to their calculations had reached 3 million euros.
For this reason, according to the “Sky” chats, Shpëtim Aliu directs his brother Isa Aliu to go into construction, considering it a field with greater interest and profit.
In another communication, Shpëtim Aliu writes to Isa: “…now we are at serious levels…”. According to the data, Isa Aliu was not directly involved in cocaine trafficking, but was considered the “key” person for laundering in Albania the money obtained from drug trafficking.
The SPAK investigative file shows that associates of Salvatore Aliu would hand over “cash” money in Albania to his brother, Isa Aliu, which constituted the payments that had to be made to Salvatore for the trafficked cocaine.
Data obtained from telephone communications show that Isa Aliu is the person who manages and launders the drug money on Salvatore’s behalf.
According to the investigation, Isa Aliu kept his brother Salvatore informed about the amounts delivered by various people, while also keeping note of the respective accounts.
It appears that for the period August-November 2020 alone, Isa Aliu has been documented as having received at least approximately more than 30 million euros in “cash” in Albania, money derived from the cocaine trafficking of his brother, the investigated Salvatore Aliu.
On August 30, 2020, Isa Aliu informed Salvatore Aliu that he had 6 million euros in “cash” on hand. Meanwhile, on September 15, 2020, he informed him that he had 9 million 800 thousand euros at his disposal.
On September 13, 2020, Salvatore Aliu confirms to his brother Isa that he will subsequently receive another 20 million. Then, on September 16, 2020, Isa Aliu sends him photos of all the notes he had kept on the money deliveries from Salvatore Aliu’s contacts.
From the conversations, Salvatore and Isa Aliu are also seen discussing ways to make it easier to hold “cash,” with one of the alternatives being the purchase of gold bars, on the grounds that they do not lose their value for a long time.
Subsequently, Salvatore Aliu also instructs Isa Aliu on other ways of concealing the money, such as burying it in 50-liter barrels or buying specially designed apartments, with the aim that the money could be hidden in internal compartments that could be created in those premises.
According to the file, Salvatore Aliu appears concerned about how the “cash” should be hidden, asking his brother to be careful, as they could face some surprise even from state authorities.
Meanwhile, from conversations held on June 7, 2020, between Salvatore Aliu, his nephew Oklid Aliu alias El Ouejdi, known as “Kiçi of Elbasan,” and an unidentified person, they discuss the seizure of a cocaine shipment that took place on June 6 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In these communications, the interlocutors imply that the American “DEA” was also involved in the operation targeting the cocaine shipments and that, for this reason, they should not speak to anyone about the matter.
“…Did you see this? Ok then, don’t talk to anyone about this matter because I’ve been caught and it turns out the ‘DEA’ has also gotten involved. I’ve linked both matters, the situation is bad, America, both here and there. Don’t talk to people, we have to deny it, it’s not ours…” Oklid El Ouejdi wrote.
Later, the conversations also mention another shipment seized in the Netherlands on the same day.
From the context of the communication, it appears that Salvatore Aliu asks several people, who from the content of the conversation seem to be part of the criminal group he leads, including his nephew, the investigated Oklid ElQuejdi, to pay for the financial damage caused by the seizure of the narcotics.
“…forget it, don’t ask, but what can I do now? Kill myself. Two jobs gone in one day. But what can you do, when it won’t happen, it won’t happen. We have to pay 5.2,” one of the conversations held on the “Sky” application says.
