NOURNEWS - According to an official document seen by Albanian news agency, Exit, members of the hypocrites (MEK), who have been granted refuge in Albania since 2013, have been arrested for drug trafficking, people smuggling, and money laundering.
The document, addressed to a foreign diplomatic recipient and bearing the signature and stamp of the Director of the Criminal Police Department of the State Police, gives details of a serious rap sheet of offences, reportedly involving hypocrites (MEK) members.
It states that two members of the hypocrites (MEK), along with Albanian and Greek accomplices, were apprehended for direct involvement in human trafficking. On July 11, 2021, police stopped a car carrying Syrian, Iraqi, and Kurdish citizens. Further investigations led to the arrest of the main gang members.
According to the document, it was discovered that between 2019 and 2021, the same smuggling gang attempted to transfer some 400 hypocrites (MEK) members from Albania to France.
Furthermore, On July 18, 2021, a consignment of drugs was seized by police and two hypocrites (MEK) senior officials—Narges Abrishamchi and Hassan Nayeb-Agha—were arrested. It is reported in the official document that they confessed to playing a pivotal role in organising and transporting a shipment of drugs to Italy.
This pattern of criminality, according to an official source who wished to remain anonymous, dates back to 2015. The documents and the source claim that information on these crimes has also been handed over to the US Embassy in Tirana.
Albanian news agency contacted the US Embassy for comment, but no formal response has been given.
The Hypocrites (MEK) are a terrorist-militant opposition group that advocates enemity against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and although they were previously considered a terrorist organisation by the EU, Canada, the US, and Japan, but nowdays they enjoy widespread support and even protection by the EU and the US.
In 2013, the US government requested the group, be settled in Albania, but hypocrites (MEK) initially rejected the offer. They eventually agreed to relocate 3,000 members to the country, and the US donated $20 million to the UN refugee agency for the cause. In 2016, a further 280 members moved to Albania to a heavily guarded compound in Manze, Durres County.
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