Economy-related criminal offenses rose by 46% in July-September period: INSTAT

Criminal offenses against property during the period July-September marked an increase in the number of cases from 2700 to almost 4 thousand.

The increase of cases has been accompanied by a higher number of perpetrators who commit criminal offenses in this category.

What is prominent from the evidenced offenses is almost the duplication of property destruction cases.

In 219 cases the property was destroyed by arson, while in 271 other cases other means were used.

Explosive destruction cases have also increased from 8 a year ago to 14 in the third quarter of this year.

Compared to the previous year, there is a noticeable decrease in cases of theft of apartments or businesses.

For this period, only 278 cases of theft of homes were reported, from 336 a year earlier.

However, the total number of cases of asset theft has increased, due to the increase of crimes in other categories such as theft of electricity, vehicle theft and motor vehicle trafficking.

The July-September period also marked an increase in cases of economic fraud, ranging from 156 to 176 cases.

A positive indicator was also the increase in punished cases of violation of industrial property rights.

Even the fight against tax evasion has marked improvement, by tripling the identified offenses.

In total, offenses related to taxes and fees for the 3rd quarter recorded 286 cases.

Almost the same number of cases were reported regarding offenses in foregery, such as identity cards, passports and visas.

For these offenses are being processed 89 authors, while 236 other perpetrators are being prosecuted for other forgery of documents or securities.

The figure comes at a time when Albanians trying to move towards European Union countries and especially towards the United Kingdom have doubled the demands for false passports.

Criminal offenses recorded for illegal construction tripled , leading to prosecution of 930 people.

The latter comprise 11.4% of the total number of perpetrators in the Republic of Albania for this period.

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