The Tirana Prosecutor's Office has uncovered a 'genuine' money laundering scheme, this time by two Norwegian nationals, who chose Albania to clean up over 800,000 euros, suspected of being earned by a fraud scheme.
Ove Johanson and Joo Borgen Nilsen are the two Norwegians who tried to justify the hundreds of thousands of euros they have provided from criminal activity through the opening of phantom firms in our country and the transaction of shares.
From the investigations carried out it turned out that the company "Norwegian Golf Devlopment AS", registered in Novergji, has sold its shares in our country for a value of 2850 euros.The main buyer of these shares with 90 percent is Ove Johanson. Two months after this contract, Johanson sells to his co-defendant Joo Borgen Nilsen 40 percent of the company's shares for 600,000 euros.
So with a price 500 times the value of the purchase at a time that no investment was carried out in society. While the other Norwegian member, Nilsen, registered in our country the company named "Asia Capital Group" with object activities, construction, design and implementation of engineering projects.
Through these camouflages, the Norwegians brought through some bank accounts from the Philippines 600,000 euros. This figure was seized by the prosecution, which, in addition to suspicious transactions involving the purchase of very cheap and 500-fold higher stockpiles, has gathered information that the two Norwegians are wanted and convicted in other countries in the region.
Ove Johanson turns convicted in Kosovo for a fraud of 300,000 euros. While Joo Borgen Nilsen is part of the pyramid schemes in Norway known as Unaico.
Both Norwegian defendants have recently been sentenced in absentia at Tirana court after they have fled abroad..