Suspected laundering of drug money in Italy: here is the person whose assets were seized in Kosovo

Under the authorization of the Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo, Kosovo Police carried out an operation in Pristina on June 30, 2026, during which assets worth 1 million euros were seized.

The action was carried out as part of an investigation into the international laundering of proceeds obtained from drug trafficking. This investigation is being conducted by the Italian and French authorities, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, in close cooperation with the Special Prosecution and Kosovo Police, Insjaderi writes.

According to the media outlet, citing sources from within the operation, one of those arrested is Dohan Hasani.

This operation is a continuation of a broad investigation, which in September 2025 had resulted in the freezing of assets worth more than 30 million euros.

The focus of the action was on two Kosovo citizens living in the province of Alessandria. Both, who had long been under surveillance by Italian prosecutors, were arrested in France last September after being stopped while traveling by car. During the search, officers discovered more than 50 kilograms of high-quality gold bars in the lower part of the vehicle. After analyzing the seized documents and exchanging judicial information with the Kosovar authorities, the Guardia di Finanza managed to identify and seal the couple’s foreign safe, which included bank accounts, businesses, real estate and luxury vehicles.

Checks on the assets uncovered a complex money-laundering mechanism. In just ten months, the organization had managed to accumulate at least 18 million euros from drug trafficking profits in France. The cash was gradually stored at the apartment of the two suspects in Alessandria and was then converted into gold bars and sheets. This key phase was made possible through cooperation with operators specialized in the melting and processing of precious metals, located throughout Lombardy and Piedmont.

The conversion of cash into gold was intended to make it more difficult to trace the source of the illegal funds and at the same time to make it safer to transport the capital abroad, with shipments going not only to Kosovo, but also to Turkey and Morocco.