After the Sky ECC application data was analysed by French authorities, in July 2024 the head of the Vlora prosecutor's office, Aurel Zarka, was arrested with an order from the special prosecutor's office on suspicion of corruption and obstruction of justice. Zarka is suspected of having influenced at least eight criminal cases, but the most serious case is the one known as Toyota Yaris, which has raised suspicions that other judicial officials are implicated, including judges, prosecutors of the special prosecutor's office, and also the former head of the Tirana prosecutor's office.

The file was named Toyota Yaris due to a denunciation made in 2018 by former opposition leader Lulzim Basha during a session in parliament, where he announced that a Toyota Yaris car with millions of euros inside would pass through the port of Durrës into Albania. A few days later, during a check signaled by the Belgian authorities, a Toyota Auris vehicle was found in the port of Toyota Auris with €3.4 million in cash inside. Klevi Cani, Edi Lika and Alban Mollaymeri were initially arrested in connection with the incident, and Elvis Vladi and Alfred Vladi were accused.

The investigations at the time failed to prove that the money trafficked through cars was part of a money laundering scheme. The prosecution and then the court accepted as evidence the alibi of the accused that the money was owned by a German businessman, ultimately bringing the case to court for the criminal offence of not declaring money at the border.

According to the special prosecutor’s office, prosecutor Zarka, in cooperation with the national bureau of investigation agent Erjona Dauti, the brother of one of the accused in the Toyota Yaris case, Astrit Vladi, and their lawyer Radovan Çela, attempted to influence four criminal cases in the from 2018 to 2020 related to the defendants Elvis Vladi, Alfred Vladi and Alban Mollaymeri.

Another case where there is suspected influence of the justice system is related to an investigation into Suel Çela. In 2020, police blocked his father's assets and two cars, but the defendants attempted to return the assets by prolonging the process in order to expire the investigation deadline. Suel Çela is a figure accused of involvement in organised crime in Elbasan and as a suspect in two murders.

The other three criminal cases are connected with illegal influence by Tirana and Vlora prosecutor's offices, in one case for reducing the sentence of a person arrested for drug trafficking and in another for not starting an investigation for land grabbing in favour of a businessperson.

Investigations are continuing for other potential crimes and for other persons in the ranks of the justice sector, suspected of being involved in this matter. These investigations were conducted in cooperation with Europol, Eurojust, French and Belgian justice authorities.