- $50,000 on June 28, 2024
- $100,000 on July 1, 2024
- $300,000 on July 9, 2024
The funds were sent to a New York bank account held by Bajrami Group, Inc., according to the filing. What allegedly followed was not a documented real estate acquisition. Instead, the complaint describes a progression of explanations: first a real estate project, then an oil or diesel transaction, then a tobacco venture purportedly linked to Philip Morris. Each explanation, according to the complaint, failed to produce documentation.
The Cash Conversion Allegation
The most striking portion of the complaint appears in paragraphs 47 through 57.
There, Austin alleges that after receiving his wired funds, Bruno Bajrami transferred the money into an Albanian company account identified as “Titanic,” converted the $450,000 into euro-denominated cash, combined it with approximately €750,000 of his own funds, and delivered roughly €1.2 million in physical cash to an individual known as “Duka” in three in-person hand offs in Albania.
The complaint further alleges that Bajrami could not identify:
