Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT)
Ownership as documented
not publicly documented here
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- Country
- Italy/BalkansFrom the research record · cites:
- Albania: a development model based on money laundering? (opens in a new tab)OBCT / Balkan Caucaso · 22 Jul 2026 · journalism · EN
- ItalyFrom the research record
- Italy/BalkansFrom the research record · cites:
- Ownership
- not publicly documented hereFrom the research record · cites:
- Albania: a development model based on money laundering? (opens in a new tab)OBCT / Balkan Caucaso · 22 Jul 2026 · journalism · EN
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Description
Balkan research outlet. Its July 2026 analysis asks whether criminal proceeds financed Albania construction boom.
Other accounts in the research (1 field worded differently)
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- Description
- Balkan research outlet. Its July 2026 analysis asks whether criminal proceeds financed Albania construction boom.From the research record
- Publisher of the 22 Jul 2026 analysis on whether the construction boom is a laundering model.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.
GI-TOC estimate: laundering through Albanian real estate, 2016-2019 (secondary)
€1,600,000,000
otherSource label: Under investigationStated definition: Estimate, secondary citation. Window reported as 2016-2019 by one source and 2017-2019 by another. Not measured. No method published in the sources reviewed.
Date: 2019 · Payer: unknown · Payee: Albanian real estate
- Drug money in Albania laundered in construction, tourism: GI report (opens in a new tab)Albanian Daily News · 2019 · 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 2016
Real-estate and construction laundering: estimates and analysis (GI-TOC, DASH, FES, OBCT)
Several NGOs and researchers argue that criminal money has moved through Albanian construction and property. The best-known number is a GI-TOC estimate of up to EUR 1.6bn laundered through real…
Status: Analysis and estimates; no court finding linking specific developments to crime money.
Sources for this record
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Source label: Under investigationUnder investigation · 1 source
- Publisher
- OBCT / Balkan Caucaso
- Date
- 22 Jul 2026