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Indictment filed against 11 suspects for organized crime in Kosovo
2025-04-03 18:12:07 / KOSOVA
The Kosovo Special Prosecution Office announced on Thursday that it has filed an indictment against an Israeli citizen and 10 other people, who are suspected of organized crime, including fraud and money laundering.
The prosecution identified the suspects only by their initials and said the organized group was led by the Israeli citizen.
In a media release, the Special Prosecution Office said that defendants OT, AG, BB, IK, DM, FB, AR, LH, AA, KI, VK, committed "major financial fraud" from October 2018 to November 2022.
They had used a company registered with the Kosovo Business Registration Agency, which did not have a license for financial intermediation, according to the announcement.
"The group was led by the defendant OT - an Israeli citizen, while the other defendants, posing as intermediaries, defrauded victims from different countries around the world, using false identities and unregulated investment platforms, where the profits shown were only simulations," the indictment states.
The prosecution did not disclose the amount of material damages caused to the victims by this group.
But, she said, this group had promised victims high profits with minimal risk "and in that way they encouraged them to invest large sums of money, which were then transferred to accounts of businesses registered and controlled by the criminal group, hiding the financial traces."
All defendants are charged with criminal offenses such as organized crime and fraud, while Israeli citizen OT and the other suspect DM are also charged with money laundering.
Prosecutors have requested that the defendants be found guilty and sentenced according to the law. According to the Criminal Code of Kosovo, participation in organized crime is punishable by a fine and up to seven years in prison.
Meanwhile, anyone who organizes, establishes, supervises, manages or directs the activities of an organized criminal group can be punished with a fine and imprisonment of at least 10 years./ REL
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