Burim Osmani

Burim Osmani (* 1964 in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija , SFR Yugoslavia , now Kosovo ) is a Kosovo Albanian Investment entrepreneurs and economic criminals who lives in Germany.

Life

Osmani studied economics and came to Hamburg from Kosovo at the end of the 1970s with his family, which also includes his brothers Bashkim, Bekim and Qazim .

His brother Qazim won his first money - according to his own account - by gambling. In 1985 Burim Osmani worked as a waiter for his brother Qazim in Hamburg . The fortune, which was later estimated at several hundred million euros, was, according to the company, earned in gastronomy and with real estate investments. Burim Osmani bought several bars in downtown Hamburg, night clubs on St. Pauli (“Heiße Ecke”, “Bayerisch Zell”, “Pupasch” / Landungsbrücken, “Washington-Bar”), residential buildings and land. This also applies to the "Heiße Ecke" property on the Reeperbahn , which has not been built on since 1991 . He is also a partner in three real estate companies that have at least 20 real estate properties worth over 40 million euros in their portfolio. In January 2004, Osmani also became the operator of an asylum seekers' home , for which the city of Hamburg paid € 39,000 a month. The operator contract ran until February 28, 2009.

Federal Intelligence Service observation

The Federal Intelligence Service is observing Burim Osmani and other family members on suspicion of organized crime , as the relationship and economic network around the family clan appears to have mafia-like structures. A kind of “governor function” of the heads of families is assumed for the Hamburg region. It is also suspected that Hamburg politicians and a Lauenburg bank favored the economic rise of Burim Osmani and other family members.

According to information from the Hamburger Morgenpost , a report by the Federal Intelligence Service said that the "Osmani brothers" turned over amounts in the millions, keeping themselves in the background in their operational work and letting others do the work for them. Another form of real estate acquisition takes place via "financial aid" to people in financial difficulties; If the debt cannot be paid off, a third person who is not involved in criminal activities takes over the property for Osmani.

Criminal activities (stolen goods and incitement to infidelity)

Burim Osmani was fined 90 daily rates for stolen goods in 1999: he had bought stolen TÜV and ASU badges. In 2004 he was sentenced by the Lübeck Regional Court to 14 months probation for tax evasion .

From May 2006 Osmani sat on charges of serious fraud in Nuremberg in custody . He was accused of having enabled a builder to obtain a loan of 10 million euros through a sham contract for the purchase of apartments. He is said to have received € 346,000 as commission. The trial began on April 10, 2007 before the Würzburg Regional Court and ended on February 26, 2008 with a three-year sentence.

In January 2007 the Hamburg public prosecutor brought another charge of embezzlement and bankruptcy delay. With the help of his lawyers and personal rights , Burim Osmani managed to forbid the German press from quoting reports from the Federal Intelligence Service or from mentioning his name until his arrest.

On Tuesday, March 4th, 2008, the trial before the Hamburg regional court began against businessmen Burim and Bashkim Osmani for inciting and aiding and abetting embezzlement in a particularly serious case.

In May 2008, the mobile task force arrested the 36 and 39 year old Osmani brothers in Hamburg. On October 16, 2008, Burim and his brother Bashkim Osmani were sentenced to long prison terms in one of the largest white-collar criminal proceedings of the post-war period before the Hamburg District Court. On the same day, the Hamburg Regional Court suspended the arrest warrants against a high bail of around one million euros and strict reporting requirements. After the appeal in the Würzburg case had been rejected by the BGH in early 2009, Burim Osmani was summoned to begin imprisonment.

However, the first judgment was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice due to a procedural error and referred back to the Regional Court. In February 2011, Osmani was sentenced to five years in prison. Since he had already served more than two thirds of the sentence in pre-trial and enforcement custody, the district court suspended the rest of the sentence .

Web links

• Suspected sham . Neon.de, April 10, 2007.
• The Kiez clan and the small town bank . Stern, 16/2007.
• Albanian Mafia in Hamburg . NDR / ZAPP on youtube; uploaded on December 23, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who is who in the Osmani family? Hamburger Abendblatt, April 11, 2007
2. ↑ They came from the village of Djakovica - these are the four Osmani brothers . (PDF) Hamburger Abendblatt, June 12, 2007
3. ↑ Trial: Burim Osmani protests his innocence . Hamburger Abendblatt, May 8, 2007
4. ↑ Osmani-Kneipe Pupasch closes at the end of the year Hamburger Abendblatt, November 27, 2007
5. ↑ The Osmani Files - red light, bespoke suits and bad loans of millions . (PDF) Hamburger Abendblatt, June 11, 2007
6. ↑ Burim Osmani sells the Washington Bar (PDF) Hamburger Abendblatt, June 11, 2007
7. ↑ “Hot corner” on the Reeperbahn Investor rows back: New building burst! , Hamburger Morgenpost from February 16, 2017
8. ↑ Burim Osmani's secret sales list . ( Memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt, June 16, 2007
9. ↑ Hamburg pays Osmani 39,000 euros every month , Hamburger Abendblatt, November 12, 2006
10. ↑ This is how Burim Osmani came to an asylum home , Hamburger Abendblatt, November 13, 2006
11. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost : A millionaire is being led away ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . May 10, 2006
12. ↑ Why Bashkim Osmani shot into the ceiling in the billiard hall (PDF) Hamburger Abendblatt, June 11, 2007 (pdf / newspaper archive)
13. ↑ Why Bashkim Osmani shot into the ceiling in the billiard hall , Hamburger Abendblatt, rectification v. April 11, 2008
14. ↑ The history of Osmani , Hamburger Abendblatt, October 17, 2008
15. ↑ The Infinite Process . Welt Online , June 17, 2007
16. ↑ The Osmanis in court . In: FAZ , March 4, 2008
17. ↑ Burim Osmani again indicted , Hamburger Abendblatt, January 13, 2007
18. ^ Muzzle for journalists in the Osmani affair ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), NDR media magazine ZAPP, August 16, 2006 (web archive)
19. ↑ The drug cartel of the Osmani ( Memento of 14 June 2008 at the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Morgenpost, 12. June 2008.
20. ↑ Osmani brothers convicted but at large . Welt Online , October 16, 2008
21. ↑ Burim Osmani has to go behind bars . Hamburger Abendblatt, January 29, 2009
22. ^ New process for Real Estate King Osmani Süddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010, accessed on December 31, 2012
23. ↑ Kiez investor Burim Osmani convicted again . Hamburger Morgenpost, February 4, 2011; Retrieved December 28, 2012