The Tirana Prosecutor's Office is sending several defendants to court for document forgery and aiding illegal entry into the US, for 35 thousand euros. The defendants are Hazir Maci, Lejla Maci, Cerkez Nikoci, Ardjan Pirani, Alfred MACI, Endrit Nezaj.
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The Tirana Prosecutor's Office has completed investigations and sent to trial several defendants who, in exchange for the sum of 35,000 euros, enabled citizens to travel to the United States of America with forged documents.
The investigations, initiated on the basis of materials referred by the Criminal Police Department at the General Directorate of the State Police and the Diplomatic Service/Office for Criminal Investigations outside the US, resulted in the citizen AH, together with several other Albanian citizens, being smuggled into the Caribbean region, with the intention of then illegally crossing into the US.
The suspected organizer of this activity is Albanian citizen HM, alias AM, previously investigated for human smuggling. Investigations show that this citizen requested at least $35,000 to send three Albanians to America and Canada. The smuggling network starts in Albania, where the people are recruited, then they travel from European countries to the Dominican Republic and then with false documents to Canada or through Puerto Rico to Florida and other US states.
Investigations have proven that HM provided several Albanian citizens with forged documents to illegally cross into the US, committing the criminal offenses of “Forgery of ID cards, passports or visas”, “Forgery of a document” and “Aid for illegal border crossing”, according to articles 186, 189 and 298 of the Criminal Code. Telephone interceptions showed that HM, during the investigations and while he was in “Arrest in prison” in Fushë-Krujë, used two different phone numbers to communicate with his family, committing the criminal offense of “Introducing or keeping prohibited items in the institution for the execution of decisions with imprisonment”.
Also, the investigations revealed that the citizen LM, the wife of HM, actively participated in his activity, accompanying the persons during the trip to the Dominican Republic and including her brother, AP, in receiving orders through the Tropoja-Tirana travel lines. She has also committed the criminal offenses of “Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas”, “Forgery of a document” and “Aid for illegal border crossing”.
Citizen EN, employed by a tourist agency, assisted by providing photos of the documents of two foreign citizens, which HM used for illegal border crossing. This constituted the elements of the criminal offense of “Aid for illegal border crossing”.
Citizen AP, in collaboration with relatives, obtained forged documents to enable the illegal crossing of other persons, committing the criminal offenses of "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas", "Forgery of a document" and "Aid for illegal border crossing".
Citizen CN, being a driver, transported forged documents, committing the criminal offenses of "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas" and "Forgery of a document" in collaboration.
Meanwhile, citizen AM has made his British passport available as a model to produce forged documents, enabling the illegal crossing of other citizens to Canada. This has consumed the criminal offense of "Aid for illegal border crossing".
