The State Police has announced that three people have been arrested in Berat by order of the Prosecutor's Office after authorities in Croatia blocked and then destroyed about 8 tons of tomatoes imported from Albania that were found to contain high levels of pesticides.
The Police announcement states that the administrator of the entity that produced and exported vegetables with high levels of the preparation "Chlorfenapyr" to the Croatian state, as well as with fictitious purchase invoices, has been arrested, as well as two inspectors of the AKU Berat, after they fictitiously completed the internship during the inspection they conducted at this entity.
"Specialists of the Economic and Financial Crimes Investigation Section, in cooperation with the Special Operational Force and under the direction of the Berat Prosecutor's Office, after receiving information that a subject was collecting and exporting vegetables, for which there was illegality in the export, organized the work and finalized the 'Again' operation. During the operation, 3 citizens were arrested," the report states.
The arrested persons are MQ, 40 years old, resident of Kuçovë, administrator of the vegetable collection and export entity, RL, 27 years old, resident of Tirana, and GL, 25 years old, resident of Berat, both inspectors of the Berat AKU.
The police also provide details ofof arrested persons.
MQ, 40 years old, resident of Kuçovë, administrator of the vegetable collection and export entity. This citizen had produced and then exported to the Croatian state, 8 tons of tomatoes which, after the analyses carried out, had resulted in a high content of the preparation “Chlorefenapyr”, and were destroyed by the Croatian authorities. Also, in order to avoid legal liability, this citizen used fictitious purchase invoices from other farmers.
RL, 27 years old, resident in Tirana and GL, 25 years old, resident in Berat, both inspectors of the Berat National Food Inspection Agency, after having carried out inspections in this subject and the practices held have resulted in being completed fictitiously, by not taking samples of the tomatoes that were in the warehouse and blocking them, and have received fictitious purchase invoices from citizen MQ as regular, thus distorting the facts regarding the products found to have high levels of the preparation.
During the search of the warehouse of citizen MQ, various vegetables were seized and samples were taken for analysis, as it is suspected that they may contain a high content of preparations.
The procedural materials were referred to the Berat Prosecutor's Office for further action.
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