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An Ecuadorian judge who freed Dritan Rexhepin, among others, was dismissed after being accused of favoring drug traffickers.
Diego Poma, who served as a judge of Guayaquil Penitentiary Guarantees, was dismissed by the Judicial Council of Ecuador. Local media write that when Rexhepi asked for bail, he argued that he suffered from systemic lupus erythematosus, an incurable and inflammatory disease in which the immune system attacks its own tissues and affects the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and the lungs.
In 2021, judge Poma accepted Rexhepi's request and decided that the Albanian's right to health prevailed over the ban on leaving prison, since he had to be extradited after the end of his sentence.
Rexhepi was not only subject to the Ecuadorian sentence, but also to two extradition requests from Albania and Italy.
Ecuador had promised to extradite Rexhepi to Albania when he finished serving his sentence in the country, but he fled the authorities. On November 10, 2022, Infobae announced that the Albanian drug trafficker had been released from prison.
Four months later, on March 20, 2023, he confirmed that someone was signing on his behalf. Finally, when then-legislator Fernando Villavicencio investigated the case, this medium gained access to all prison service documentation and published an extensive report on April 25, 2023. Three days later, on April 28, 2023, Ecuadorian authorities declared Rexhepin as a fugitive, which allowed Interpol to activate and manage to capture him, on November 10, 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey. These texts already mentioned Poma and his connections with drug traffickers.
Rexhepi had been imprisoned in Ecuador since 2014 for drug trafficking, but he was released early in 2021, meaning he had to serve the remainder of his 13-year sentence outside prison. Although Poma, who was a judge in this case, decided some measures for the Albanian, none were followed. Among the provisions, Poma requested periodic checks, every fifteen days, by the National Police, as well as periodic monthly visits by the social worker of the Deprivation of Liberty Center from which Rexhepi was released.
Also, every fifteen days, the Albanian had to appear at the trust house of the Litoral prison in Guayaquil and sign a record. Although he was ordered to use an electronic tracking device, this measure was later lifted by Poma himself, also citing Rexhepi's health. From the official information it is known that the public defender, then judge Diego Poma, prison officials and public doctors acted in favor of Rexhepi.
Several Italian court documents identified Rexhepi, now 42 years old, as the "undisputed kingpin" with access to "endless amounts of cocaine" at Kompania Bello, a cartel made up of 14 Albanian criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking and which, according to authorities, had been operating since 2014 in Ecuador, the Netherlands, Belgium, Albania and Italy.
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