Through forgery of documents, AlbanaZeqaj stole by falsifying the signatures of some Tirana Bank customers about 32 million lekë. There have been two clients who have fallen victim to the continued falsification of the vice director of this bank, a scheme that started from 2010 to 2014. The court did not sentence him to imprisonment but only with 18 months of Probation Service.
One of the branches of the second tier bank in Albania, “Tirana Bank”, has fallen victim to a theft by its own employees. AlbanaZeqaj, in the position of deputy. Director of “Tirana Bank” in the former Kinostudio branch for more than 4 years has falsified documents and clients’ firms.
According to the decision of the District Court of Tirana, through these illegal actions, Zeqaj managed to absorb about 32 million lekë from this bank, before these taken from the accounts of the customers of “Tirana Bank” (Download the decision)
From the Tirana Bank’s Internal Control Report, it turns out that Deputy. The director charged two clients, namely 10 million ALL on behalf of I. L. and 21 million ALL on behalf of N. C., without their knowledge. The latter proved to have large accounts at this bank, and for this reason it was not necessary to leave a collateral as a mortgage.
Having falsified the application for the loan, the Deputy Director has withdrawn these amounts, ie 32 million lek, by filling the mandates with a counterfeit signature of two already debiting clients.
The theft scheme is further expanded with loan installments paid each month. Deputy. The director, Mr. AlbanaZeqaj, again through counterfeiting, withdrew money from the accounts of two clients I. L. and N. C., to repay the monthly installments of the loan they were charged with.
Parts of the theft were also some other clients, where they were kept monthly installments from their accounts to repay the loan of two counterfeit customers. According to investigations by the prosecutor’s office and the Tirana Bank’s internal audit, it turns out that all transactions were carried out after working hours.
Falsification of bank documents and transactions is also verified by technical-graphic expertise.
Asked by the Prosecution, AlbanaZeqja has accepted the offenses but has wanted to justify the fact that this action was made to financially help a friend of her, a citizen S.K., who had a serious health problem.
However, this justification was not taken into account by the Tirana District Court, which accepted the indictment, sentencing him to 2 years’ imprisonment. Deputy. Tirana Bank’s director did not do any day of imprisonment, as the court, considering the circumstances, decided to conduct a Probation Service for 18 months.
Boldnews.al asked “Tirana Bank” if it agreed on the sentence taken by the Court to her former employee. Also, this second-tier bank was asked with the fate of clients damaged by this theft scheme if they were indemnified by the debts charged by the Deputy. Director AlbanaZeqaj. But so far, “Tirana Bank” has not responded to the requests of Boldnews.al.
