Cani: Financial crimes will be investigated

26/04/2014 00:00

The Minister of Finances, Shkelqim Cani, wrote a letter to the
Prosecutor General, Adriatic Llalla, expressing his concern for the
passive stance the prosecution is holding regarding the cases reported
by the Ministry of Finances.

Cani informed the Prosecutor that the Minister of Finances and the institutions she owns are committed in the fight against corruption and presented 192 criminal reports at the Prosecution, which implicate 569 authors.

“These reports refer to the criminal acts in several areas, from power abuse, fraud, hiding taxes and illegal activities in gambling and money laundering”.

But the Prosecution has informed the Ministry for only 10 of these 192 cases, which is 5% of the total. The Prosecution has decided for one case to not start the investigation. For two others they have suspended the case, while for seven other reports, they have decided to delegate them.

Facing this situation, the Minister of Finances expressed his concern in the document and asked the attention of the Prosecutor General for the lack of information on the cases that have been reported. In the end of the document that he sent to the Prosecutor General, Mr.Cani attached the detailed adta for the cases that have been reported by the Ministry of Finances.

Top Channel has learned that there is still a number of high-rank officials of the Ministry of Finances, the Tax and Customs Directory. They have been reported for a series of actions that are related to fraud scheme with VAT reimbursement, abuses with gambling games and corruption with the payments from the state treasury, which, according to the reports, have favored only some businesses.

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