A room filled with millions of euros, a person who stayed for over 24 hours counting the money and a counting machine that broke from use. These are some of the details published by moderator Blendi Fevziu regarding the file of the criminal groups of Franc Çopjas and Ervis Çela, investigated for international cocaine trafficking.
Fevziu has published a photograph taken in an apartment in central Albania, where large amounts of banknotes can be seen. According to him, at the end of the counting, there were a total of 12 million euros, income from drug trafficking.
“This photo was taken in a room in a house in central Albania. At the end of the count, 12 million euros resulted. 12 million euros came from drug trafficking. These are materials that the traffickers used. They are photos that belong to the case related to the Çopja-Çela groups”, declared Fevziu.
Journalist Eni Ferhati clarified that the photo does not represent money seized by the authorities, but materials that, according to the file, members of criminal groups sent to each other during communications.
“The money is in Peqin. In the file it is said that the money was delivered by the organizations in bags or suitcases to couriers in Elbasan or Peqin. This is not found money, these are photos that they sent to each other”, said Ferhati.
Journalist Klodiana Lala provided other details from the communications included in the investigative file, secured through the encrypted SKY ECC application. According to her, the amount of money was so large that the people involved in the counting complained about the breakdown of the machine.
“The leader is Ervis Çela. They are in a house in a village in Elbasan. These intercepts are from SKY ECC, there are also photos of weapons and other things. Here they have a problem that their counting machine is broken. They say in the file, ‘we are left because our counting machine is broken’
Franc Çopja is the first to introduce cryptocurrency. They hid them in olive roots. SPAK has plucked the olive tree to find them. As for the Çelas, they have negligible wealth in relation to the activity they had”, declared Lala.
The photographs and communications are part of the materials of the file related to the Çopja and Çela groups, which are suspected of having organized the trafficking of large quantities of cocaine from Latin America to European ports.
