Jetmir Pepa and his family members were able to invest and hide dozens of businesses in Albania, which, according to one estimate, are worth 69 million euros.

The show "Në Shënjestër" published the history of the criminal activity of the Pepa brothers' criminal group, which, with the money earned from cocaine trafficking, established dozens of businesses and a construction company, 'Pepa Group', that received tenders from the state.

During the show, conversations were published on SkyEcc, where the Pepa brothers talk among themselves about reconstruction tenders as well as building permits in the most coveted area of ​​Tirana, that of '21 Dhjetori'.

A company that has its headquarters in the industrial area on the Tirana-Durres highway.

Where SPAK has already placed it under seizure, along with many other businesses in which they are majority shareholders, and where assets worth 12 million euros have been seized during the execution of security measures.

A criminal group that, during the years 2019-2021, operated in Latin America, Belgium and the Netherlands, where 8 episodes of cocaine trafficking in large quantities were documented.

Likewise, following the request of the Special Prosecution Office with decision no. 20, dated April 14, 2026, the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (SCOC) has imposed the security measure of 'prison arrest' on 11 Albanian citizens.

Where investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with the General Directorate of the State Police have made it possible to implement security measures against citizens:

Fation Marku, born February 20, 1992

Lulëzim Pepa, born July 6, 1974

Anton Kola, born June 19, 1993

Meanwhile, the General Directorate of the State Police, in cooperation with BKH investigators, continue with procedural and operational actions to locate other citizens, against whom the personal security measure of 'prison arrest' has been imposed.

Some of these persons are not located in the territory of the Republic of Albania.

Among the key people who could not be stopped are Aleks Pepa and his brother Jetmir Pepa.

The latter, as we said, is also known as 'Casanova'.

Meanwhile, the list of seized businesses also includes numerous bank accounts, large areas of land, hotels, and even luxury vehicles.

Some of them were registered in the names of family members who had no financial means to purchase them with the income they declared from employment.

Where some of these family members who possessed these staggering assets were employed with minimal salaries, precisely in these businesses that served as money laundering for drug trafficking.

Seized businesses

In total, 231 assets, commercial companies, land, apartments, commercial units, apartments, bank accounts of companies and in the name of various individuals, and luxury vehicles have been seized.

Specifically, the seized assets are:

'Pepa Group' company with headquarters in Kashar, km 6, Tirana-Durrës Highway

The company 'HEC ARSTI' with headquarters in Shkodra, Fierza

The company 'BIV' shpk, headquartered in Lezha, Rubik, Fan village, where 50 percent of the shares belong to the partner of 'Pepa Group'.

The company 'Shëngjini 2013' shpk, headquartered in Lezha, 50 percent of which belong to the partner of 'Pepa Group'

The company 'Oxford Hotel', shpk, Municipal unit no. 1, including any movable and immovable property, assets, rights towards third parties, part of the company's capital.

The company 'Maison Nuve Aesthetics', headquartered in Tirana.

'E.DK.AL' shpk, headquartered in Ishull-Shëngjin, with the trade name 'Soluna', etc.

But what are the businesses in which the Pepa brothers had invested and hidden in the names of their family members?

What was the mechanism they had chosen to launder the money from international cocaine trafficking?

According to SPAK, none of the businesses in the name of the Pepa family justify the legal source of income.

This is based on all employment data related to the leaders of these businesses.

From which it emerges that one of the Pepa brothers does not justify the source of income from employment in Albania in the last 10 years.

This, compared to the investment he has made in various businesses.

According to Spak, specifically, the incomes of the aforementioned persons were extremely modest.

Meanwhile, it turns out that they have created commercial activities, which, from the entirety of the investigations and the lack of financial means, are considered a way to hide the illegal source of financing the assets created, through fictitious schemes, hidden under legal actions.

Investigation File

Citizen Lulëzim Pepa, from March 2012 to October 2025, was employed in several private entities, such as the 'Pepa Group' entity, where in total he was paid a gross salary of 104 million old lek.

Citizen L. Pepa, for the same period, was paid a gross salary of 35 million old lekë.

Citizen Urim Pepa, for the period December 2012-May 2021, was paid a total gross salary of 93 million old lek.

Citizen B. Pepa, for the period from October 2015 to October 2025, was paid a total of 53 million old lekë.

Citizen Jetmir Pepa, it turns out, was employed by a private entity for the period from July 2019 to October 2025 and was paid a total of 50 thousand old lek.

Citizen Lekë Pepa, from December 2011 to May 2012, was paid the amount of 99 thousand old lekë.

Citizen V. Pepa, in total, was paid from December 2012 to August 2025 in the amount of 55 million old lekë.

Meanwhile, citizen Aleks Pepa does not appear to have been employed in Albania.

Like citizen B. Pepa, who had no employment history.

SPAK's investigations show that only one of the Pepa brothers, specifically Urim Pepa, who died in a fatal accident in 2021, had founded seven commercial companies together with his wife, citizen B. Pepa.

Specifically 'Pro Home', sh.pk with registration date June 26, 2012.

'Pepa Group', sh.pk, with registration date October 15, 2014.

'Oxford Hotel', sh.pk, with registration date 14 June 2017.

"Property Investment 2020", sh.pk

Also, the company 'Pepa Group' sh.pk, had purchased 33.5% of the quotas in 2018 of the company 'HEC ARSTI', sh.pk, with registration date April 1, 2016.

And in 2022, he also purchased 50% of the shares of the company 'IUV', sh.pk, with registration date January 1, 2003.

Companies that actually result in their annual balance sheets either with losses or with minimal profits.

But even though after the death of her husband in the tragic accident that occurred on May 19, 2021 in Mamurras, a significant part of the company 'Pepa Group' passed to citizen B. Pepa and their children, in fact SPAK has discovered that all assets were controlled by Lulëzim Pepa.

Who meanwhile managed all the brothers' assets, on behalf of the family.

Inheritance of assets

Referring to the historical extract of the Central Bank, the partners of the company 'Pepa Group', sh.pk, were citizens Urim Pepa and his wife, citizen B, Pepa.

After 2021, when citizen Urim Pepa passed away, the partners of the company became citizen B. Pepa and her children with 25% of the quotas each, but de facto all companies in the name of the Pepa family members were managed by the older brother of the Pepa family (where all the Pepa brothers are the owners), specifically by citizen Lulëzim Pepa.

Here too, the platform that revealed who the Pepa brothers' asset manager really was was Sky Ecc.

As well as from the powers of attorney of 2022, where despite the fact that the administrator of these assets was their sister, citizen V, Pepa, all actions on behalf of the company 'Pepa Group, sh.pk, were authorized by citizen Lulëzim Pepa.

As in another prosecutor's office in 2023, where the administrator and partner of the company 'Oxford Hotel', sh.pk, appointed citizen Lulëzim Pepa as general representative.

Thus giving him not only the right of administration, but essentially all the decision-making rights that belong to the partners of the commercial company.