Details from the property fraud scheme worth over 100 thousand euros were discovered this Friday, September 4, in the capital by the Tirana police, during the operation codenamed “Promise”.
A certain Suzana Doda has ended up in the hands of law enforcement agencies, while her accomplice, Sara Ndoj, is being pursued at large.
The scheme used by the two women relied on the false promise of intervening with the State Cadastre Agency, with the aim of solving problems that citizens had with their properties.
“It is suspected that they have embezzled over 100,000 euros, deceiving citizens that they would intervene in the KSA to resolve their property cases, and providing them with false documents, the 58-year-old woman and her accomplice are being held in custody,” the police announced.
Through this illegal activity, they managed to obtain large sums of money from various individuals.
During the control actions, the police seized a quantity of euros suspected of being obtained through fraud, certificates suspected of being forged, as well as two mobile phones.
The prosecution has taken over further investigations to fully uncover this criminal activity and identify other possible cases.
Police announcement:
Tirana/The operation codenamed “Promise” is finalized.
The 58-year-old woman and her accomplice are suspected of having embezzled over 100,000 euros, deceiving citizens that they would intervene in the KSA to resolve their property cases, and providing them with false documents. The 58-year-old woman and her accomplice are under investigation.
A sum of euros suspected of having been obtained from this criminal activity, several suspected forged certificates and 2 mobile phones were seized.
As a result of the rapid administration of information by journalists of the investigative show “STOP”, that they had been contacted by various citizens equipped with false documents by a citizen, who had deceived them that she could resolve their property issues, as she had acquaintances at the State Cadastre Agency, specialists of the Economic and Financial Crimes Investigation Section, within the framework of the coded operation “Promise”, detained and handcuffed the suspect, citizen SD, 58 years old.
They also referred the materials to the Prosecutor’s Office, where proceedings were initiated against the 58-year-old’s suspected accomplice, citizen SN, 27 years old.
These citizens are suspected of having benefited from over 100,000 euros from various citizens through criminal activities of fraud and forgery of documents.
Under the direction of the Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation continues to uncover and document other cases of this criminal activity, committed by citizen SD and her accomplice.
The procedural materials were referred to the Prosecutor’s Office at the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction in Tirana, for further action, for the criminal offenses of “Fraud”, “Forgery of documents” and “Abuse of state title or office”.