NAMES/ Who are the 3 Italians who were convicted in Tirana for concealing income, hundreds of thousands of € from Belgium and Nigeria?

2025-02-26 22:58:26 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

NAMES/ Who are the 3 Italians who were convicted in Tirana for concealing
On April 4, 2022, the Court of Tirana convicted 3 Italian citizens, specifically Paolo Palumbo, Rosario Lazzari, and Salvatore Solazzo, of "concealing income."

They were each sentenced to 5 years in prison and also, it was decided to close down the activity of three of their companies that operated in the field of call centers, specifically “IM DATA”, “Media Future” and 'SOFTLOG'. The first signal for this group was given by the Tax Investigation Directorate. From the Police verifications, suspicions of 'money laundering' were raised, starting from some transfers considered illogical and anomalous.

"For the subject Future media, there are reports that during the month of July, several transfers from Nigeria arrived in the subject's account."

"Different schemes appear in different forms, money laundering and fraud must be separated, money laundering is for money already earned from illegal activity, fraud consists of earning money that will then need to be laundered. The call center scheme is mainly about earning money illegally ," said economic expert Pano Soko.

In a similar way, justified by marketing contracts, an amount of 377 thousand euros was transferred from Belgium. What was impressive was the fact that the money, after coming through the banking system, was withdrawn in cash. Despite the fact that the company declared 40 employees, in fact only the administrator Rossario Lazzarin was employed.

"Regarding the use of the amounts, it turns out that they were withdrawn in cash, for business expenses, by the authorized firm in the account of the client, who is citizen Ismail Mici. The amount was withdrawn for business expenses and employee salaries."