Financial Intelligence Agency (AFIU / FIA)
Ownership as documented
not applicable
Conflicting records. The research disagrees; every version is shown and none has been chosen as correct.
- Name
- Financial Intelligence Agency (AFIU / FIA)From the research record · cites:
- Albania's currency exchanges tied to drug money laundering (opens in a new tab)Tirana Times · 16 Oct 2025 · journalism · EN
- Financial Intelligence Agency (AFIU)From the research record
- Financial Intelligence Agency (AFIU / FIA)From the research record · cites:
- Ownership
- not applicableFrom the research record · cites:
- Albania's currency exchanges tied to drug money laundering (opens in a new tab)Tirana Times · 16 Oct 2025 · journalism · EN
- State institutionFrom the research record
- not applicableFrom the research record · cites:
Description
Albania's financial intelligence unit. Describes exchange offices as channels for organised-crime cash (Oct 2025, per Tirana Times).
Other accounts in the research (1 field worded differently)
This record appears in more than one research record. The main text above comes from one; the other versions are kept here unedited.
- Description
- Albania's financial intelligence unit. Describes exchange offices as channels for organised-crime cash (Oct 2025, per Tirana Times).From the research record
- Albania's FIU. 2025 annual report (media coverage) lists seven laundering typologies including investments in real estate with unknown or unjustified sources.From the research record
Contracts and money
Figures recorded for the cases linked to this organisation. A figure here is not necessarily paid to or by this organisation; check payer and payee.
Crypto seized in the Copja case (exchange-office laundering probe)
No amount recorded
seizureSource label: Under investigationStated definition: More than USD 11 million, per Tirana Times. Not in euro in source.
Date: Oct 2025 · Payer: alleged launderers · Payee: State
- Albania's currency exchanges tied to drug money laundering (opens in a new tab)Tirana Times · 16 Oct 2025 · journalism · EN
Officials and people linked
No person is linked to this organisation in the research.
Investigations and cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 2018
Tirana exchange offices and the Copja brothers (alleged cocaine and crypto laundering)
Reused id from; see that file for full detail. Prosecutors and the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) describe exchange offices as channels for organised-crime cash (Oct 2025). Listed here to link…
Status: Under investigation.
From 2024
Financial Intelligence Agency: three 2024 real-estate laundering cases
The Financial Intelligence Agency (AFIU) cited three real-estate cases from 2024 in a 2026 Balkanweb article: investments in real estate by people with criminal activity; investment in real estate by…
Status: Not known (agency case summaries; no names or amounts in the article)
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 1 source.
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 1 source
- Publisher
- Tirana Times
- Date
- 16 Oct 2025