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The drug lord Gëzim Çela will be extradited from Kosovo today...
The former officer of the Special Forces, Gëzim Çela, otherwise known as the 'Baron' of drugs, will be extradited today from Kosovo to serve his sentence in Albania.
It is reported that the State Police officers are waiting for Çela at the border crossing point of Morini in Kukës, where the handover will take place from the Kosovar side.
"His extradition will be based on a January 11 decision of the Basic Court in Ferizaj, Kosovo, to allow the simplified extradition of this citizen, because he has given his consent to be extradited to Albania.
The request for the extradition of Çela is based on a decision of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime of October of last year, for assigning to him the security measure "Arrest in prison" for the commission of criminal offenses. Narcotics trafficking" carried out in collaboration, in the form of the structured criminal group "Structured criminal group" and "Perpetration of criminal offenses by the structured criminal group", says the announcement of the Ministry of Justice.
The "drug lord" was arrested in December of last year in Kosovo, where the drug trafficker had found refuge, while in Albania he was declared wanted in August of this year after he could not be arrested during the "Flake" operation in the sea".
The police discovered that Gëzim Çela and his group, assisted by the chief of the Kurbini police station, Dritan Metaj, trafficked cannabis from the Fushë Kuqe area towards the Adriatic Sea, where he exchanged the cannabis for cocaine in a boat.
The name of Gëzim Çela is among the first mentioned as a drug trafficker in Albania, since he started this activity in the 90s. Once a former police officer, he became the main contact for the distribution of heroin in the country, as well as the author of dozens of kilograms of cocaine in Kosovo.
Who is Gëzim Çela?
Gëzim Çela is the father of 4 children and is divorced by the papers. Argument that was used in court by his lawyer, to relieve the accused, regarding the objects that were seized from his wife's apartment in "Don Bosko", in Tirana.
He is a resident of the village of Fushë-Kuqe, Kurbini, where checks have been carried out from time to time by the Police. His uncle's son, Nerim Çela, was arrested during the "Flame at sea" operation, when traffickers set fire to the ship that was suspected of trafficking drugs. Gëzim Çela also has family ties with the "king of gambling", Ervis Martinaj, who has been missing for more than a year. Specifically, Çela's cousin, Nerim Çela, is the uncle of Brilant Martinaj, who was killed in the terrible assassination attempt that took the lives of his two friends, last year, at the Fushë-Kruja crossing.
His name also appears in the "Metamorphosis" folder. In the messages exchanged by the characters of this file, Dorian Duli, who was one of the people targeted to be killed by the Bajri group, but also Lulzim Kulla, the son-in-law of the Lici family, is commented as a strong connection of Gëzim Çele.
Gëzim Çela is suspected of using his villa in Fushë Kuqe for drug trafficking. It was there that the police found 18 kilograms of cocaine some time ago. In June 2014, the Albanian and Kosovar police destroyed a structured criminal group, which trafficked hard drugs from Turkey to Western Europe, also using the territory of Albania.
At the border point of Morini in Kukës, the citizen, Erald Hysolli, was arrested with 7 kilograms of cocaine. He was a drug courier, who was supplied in Pristina. At the same time, 3 people were arrested red-handed in the capital of Kosovo, and 50 kilograms of cocaine and heroin were seized.
However, during the search at Çela's villa in Fushë Kuqe, Kurbin, they found not only 18 kilograms of cocaine, but also 150 kilograms of cannabis sativa.
Police forces also seized 9 weapons, 3 snipers, grenades and armored cars. Çela was released by the Albanian court with the argument that he was suffering from a serious illness. Then he was arrested for falsifying the medical card and was put under "house arrest". When the police surrounded Çela's house in Mamurras, he was not there.
When the drug arrived in Albania, it was sent to Gëzim Çela's villa in Fushë Kuqe, from where it was distributed to western countries. Çela had turned the family's villa into a laboratory for mixing drugs. Çela was wanted as the head of this drug trafficking network. For him, there is a sentence from the Italian court with 11 years of imprisonment, as well as a 150,000 euro fine, under the charge of international drug trafficking. Gëzim Çela, before being implicated in drug trafficking and being the head of a cocaine trafficking gang, was an officer of the Special Police Forces. He held this position before 1997.
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