
Journalist Ferdinand Dervishi has stated for "Top Story" that the drug trafficker Gëzim Çela known as the "Drug Baron" was the person who ordered the murder of the banker Artan Santo in the middle of Tirana.
"The term "drug lord" Gëzim Çela is not in vain. He has a history. Gëzim Çela is a former policeman, he must have been a policeman during the Berisha 1 government, and for a short time also a driver of a the chief of the Commissariat who went to the Kurbin area and wanted someone from the police in 1999-2000 to create a defense.
It is thought that this person, being in the Police, also did the rest because he was quite powerful in this period. Since 2005, he has been separated from the police and has taken up this job. Over time, he also became a wholesaler, dealing with the passage of drugs to Italy and France. I know he has a sentence in Italy of 11 years and was wanted by France through Interpol.
His biggest story is in 2014, in the case of drugs in Lazarat, and he is under the red circle of the American DEA and follows him everywhere," Dervishi said .
Duma: How is it possible that he is alive?
Dervishi: Because he lives in Albania. In 2014, while engaged with Lazarat, the DEA tracked a drug shipment of 250 kg of cocaine and decided not to unload it in Durrës, but to push it even further to Montenegro. That's where it gets caught.
The Colombians were also involved in this history of that time. They work with a guarantee. If the cocaine is caught, they had left a guarantee in a bank in Albania of 2 million dollars so that they would not lose too much. This guarantee was left precisely by Gëzim Çela.
So the drugs were caught in Montenegro, this returned the guarantee to the Colombians. Since the DEA insisted, the Colombian who came to collect the money was caught in the Rinas and thus they suffered a double loss: the amount of drugs and the bail money.
At this moment, a banker was hit by this man in the center of Tirana, just to show the Colombians that I did not do the coup. It's not my fault. That's why this man is called "drug baron".
And at that time, Minister Tahiri came out and said publicly that "this was a murder that should have been heard far away", that is, in Colombia.
This is his story. It seems to me that this man appointed the police chiefs himself as far as he has been in the game, generally. Of course, he did not sign the appointment, but intervened through the deputies of the area, through the mayors, direct intervention to the General Director of the State Police or someone in power. All the chiefs of the police stations were people who cooperated with this man out of necessity or greed.
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