The Police relate the gang of Albanians from the millionaire robbery to the soccer player Verratti with 15 assaults on luxury homes

They chose houses occupied by celebrities or big businessmen to rob them using disguises and transmission equipment

MADRID, 5 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Police has linked the gang of Albanian origin that allegedly committed the millionaire robbery to the Italian soccer player Marco Verratti when he was enjoying a few days of vacation in Ibiza with another 15 assaults on luxury homes, occupied by celebrities or big businessmen. The robbers used disguise elements to conceal themselves and sophisticated transmission equipment, as well as large displacement vehicles for getaways.

In total, as reported by the National Police, there are seven people arrested belonging to a criminal network of Albanian origin who allegedly had just committed a robbery in a villa in Ibiza occupied by Verratti and his wife in which they seized luxury watches and jewels worth about three million euros. The other assaults were committed in the provinces of Alicante, Malaga and Murcia.

The first two arrests were carried out in Alicante, to whom the stolen effects were intervened in the house hidden in hidden compartments of the vehicle in which they were traveling. Three records have been carried out in the province of Malaga and on the Balearic island of Ibiza, where other items stolen from luxury homes have been found.

The investigation began at the end of 2021, when several thefts were detected inside luxury villas inhabited on the Costa del Sol, Murcia and Ibiza during dates such as New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. During the assaults, they came to seize properties of the victims worth 300,000 euros.

The disjointed organization had its base in Albania, from where they traveled to our country for the time necessary to commit the assaults on the selected homes. The agents were able to determine that the organization chose the homes of large businessmen or famous people to commit the assaults and that they had documents with the selected homes in exclusive areas throughout the country.

They have also been able to detect, according to the Police, that prior to the commission of the robberies they made visits to the villas to detect the security measures that the houses had, as well as the conditions of access to the place. During the robberies, which used to start by scaling the perimeter walls of the houses, they used elements of disguise to hide and sophisticated transmission equipment to communicate between the participants in the criminal actions.

The investigations revealed that the vehicles used were for rent and that they were selected based on their power, later changing their license plates for others of models with the same characteristics and deactivating the geographic positioning systems as security measures.

The agents managed to locate a married couple residing in Malaga, who had strong ties with members of the criminal organization and who carried out all the logistical tasks they needed to commit the assaults, providing vehicles, money, accommodation and detecting homes to commit the attacks. assaults.

At a certain point in the investigation, the agents detected that those responsible for the organization visited the cities of Malaga, Barcelona and Ibiza on the same day, which made them suspect that they might be considering committing some of their criminal actions.

After learning on June 28 that members of the criminal network could be traveling by ferry from the Ibizan island to the Malaga municipality of Denia, a surveillance device was established in the port and they realized that a crime had just been committed. robbery in a luxury villa occupied by Verratti, a Paris Saint Germain player.

As soon as they detected the presence of the suspects, the agents intercepted the vehicle and two alleged members of the organization, being able to locate several of the luxury watches stolen in the robbery that had apparently been carried out in Ibiza in the passenger airbag compartment. .

After the arrest of these two members of the criminal network, the agents located the other five members of the organization in the province of Malaga. Once arrested, two house searches were carried out in the Malaga municipalities of Valle-Niza and Chilches, as well as another in Ibiza, during which effects were seized that allegedly allowed those arrested to be incriminated in another 15 assaults on luxury homes: nine in the province of Malaga, four in Murcian municipalities and two in the Alicante towns of Pilar de la Horadada and Torremolinos.

The duty judge of Denia (Alicante) agreed on July 1 to enter provisional prison, communicated and without bail for the two men arrested in this town for their alleged relationship with the millionaire robbery of soccer player Marco, as confirmed to Europe Press sources familiar with the decision.