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Dritan Rexhepi is more likely to be extradited to Albania or Italy, where there are also court proceedings
The media in Ecuador have paid special attention to the arrest in Istanbul of Dritan Rexhepi, the Albanian boss of the " Kompanio Bello " drug cartel. But since his handcuffing, there is already talk of extradition. According to "El Universo" it is unlikely that he will return to Ecuador to pay his debts.
According to this media, "Dritan Rexhepi is more likely to be extradited to Albania or Italy, where there are also court proceedings".
Dritan Rexhepi, the leader of the international drug cartel called 'Kompanio Bello', is known as the 'King' of cocaine, but also as the 'King' of escape for the ways he evaded the authorities in several countries in recent years.
This Albanian drug trafficker was detained in Ecuador, but in 2021 he was released on the condition that he appear before the authorities every fifteen days. But he disappeared in 2022.
On November 8, in a mega-operation, he was arrested in Istanbul, Turkey. His arrest took place in a building in Istanbul's upscale Beylikdüzü neighborhood.
Turkish police forces opened the door of the villa, where they found a safe, a gun, euros and jewelry.
Turkish media reported that during the operation, the Albanian boss tried to escape in a vehicle. As soon as he realized that the police forces had entered, Rexhepi went to the garage to escape.
Turkish authorities arrested him due to a red notice issued by Interpol.
Who is Dritan Rexhepi?
Dritan Rexhepi is a well-known character for justice, who was arrested in Istanbul, is registered in court files in at least ten countries for a series of very serious crimes (for life).
Dritan Rexhepi was once arrested in the Netherlands. He escaped, among other things, from a Belgian prison and, early in his career, combined a legal study with paid assassinations.
The criminal 'career' started in a period when Albania was in transition in the 1990s. Rexhepi was only a teenager when he was suspected of committing contract killings. There were at least two, maybe more. The Tirana court sentenced him in absentia in 2013 to 25 years in prison for two liquidations in 1998. His criminal name at that time was still "Gramoz", then Mutaraj, Lulëzim and Edmir Kraja were added.
In 2005, Rexhepi decided to study law. The plan to study law never materialized, Rexhepi said, because he was wrongly accused of murder. Therefore, his step into the drug trade would be forced. "I had two options, to surrender to an unjust and rotten system in Albania, which would lead to life imprisonment, or to look for a second chance to do something else with my life. That's why I got into the drug trade," declared Rexhepi for Balkan Insight. This media describes how, after his arrest in Durrës in 2006, Rexhepi was given the opportunity to leave the police cell for inexplicable circumstances. Someone had left his cell door open during a break in the interrogation. "They're done with me," he reportedly reported to a surprised officer in the hallway as he passed.
Rexhep often ended up in prison. He usually ran away, more often than Joaquin Guzmán "El Chapo".
After escaping to Durrës, Rexhepi was arrested in the Netherlands two years later and extradited to Italy. There he was convicted for cocaine trafficking. In 2011, he and two other inmates escaped from a prison south of Milan. In Voghera prison, Pavia province, Rexhepi and two others used a hacksaw to cut the bars of a window in a corridor... They reached the first floor with sheets. His Albanian companions had been convicted of serious violent crimes. In the afternoon shortly before the escape, the three were together with the other prisoners in the yard to get some air. They went outside for a few minutes. There they continued on foot. In a rural area, they stopped a car, pulled over the driver and disappeared without a trace.
Later in 2011, Rexhepi was arrested in Spain. He did not go to Italy to continue his sentence. Instead, the trip went to Belgium because he had been convicted there in 2009 by the Court of Appeal of a violent robbery. Although he was already on the Interpol fugitives list because he was wanted in Albania for a double murder and in Italy for serving a sentence, Rexhepi ended up in Merksplas prison near Antwerp, in a moderately severe regime. The prison authorities were not informed about the caliber of the new Albanian prisoner.
In the fall of 2011, Rexhepi managed to leave Merksplas together with another prisoner. He went into hiding, but remained in the Benelux, and probably lived in Rotterdam, but possibly also in Spain. There his name appeared as a suspect for involvement in a series of bank robberies.
Bello Company
Që nga ai moment, Rexhepi dhe një sërë bashkatdhetarësh filluan të ndërtonin një rrjet që merrte sasi të mëdha kokaine në portet e Roterdamit dhe Antwerpen dhe e shpërndante atë në të gjithë Evropën, veçanërisht në Itali, njoftoi drejtësia italiane. Prokurorët shqiptarë dhe italianë drejtuan operacionin “Los Blancos” dhe hartuan ngadalë rrjetin. Prokuroria e Firences e quajti më vonë rrjetin “Kompania Bello”: një kartel prej 14 organizatash kriminale shqiptare që ishte aktive në Ekuador, Holandë, Belgjikë, Shqipëri dhe Itali të paktën nga viti 2014 (në vitin 2020, operacioni Los Blancos u shemb dhe dhjetëra njerëzit u arrestuan).
Don Monti
Në Ekuador, bashkëpunëtorët e Rexhepit lidhën një aleancë me një njeri që kishte kontakte shumë të mira me prodhuesit e kokainës në Ekuador në atë kohë, Cesar Emilio Montenegro Castillo, i njohur edhe si “Don Monti”. Ai kishte lidhje me prodhuesit kolumbianë nga veriu i atij vendi, një grup i njohur më parë si Karteli Norte del Valle. Mali i Zi gjithashtu kishte një lidhje me kartelin Sinaloa në Meksikë, i cili gjithashtu kishte kontakte të mira me prodhuesit në Kolumbi.
Në qershor të vitit 2014, Rexhepi u arrestua në Quito, kryeqyteti i Ekuadorit, si pjesë e një operacioni droge nga policia që sekuestroi 278 kilogramë kokainë. Për këtë ai u dënua me 13 vite burg. Gjykata e Lartë në Ekuador vendosi që pas vuajtjes së dënimit ai të ekstradohej në Shqipëri për vrasjen e dyfishtë. Këtë pranverë ai preu byzylykun e kyçit të këmbës për t’u fshehur. Dënimi i tij pothuajse ishte kryer, por tani ai është i arratisur në Ekuador.
Ndërkohë që drejtues të tjerë të “Kompania Bello” ndodhen në burg në Itali, Rexhepi është tashmë i lirë dhe shihet si lideri i padiskutueshëm i mafies shqiptare të kokainës.
Prokurorët italianë e akuzojnë Rexhepin se ka urdhëruar të paktën dy vrasje gjatë kohës që ishte në burg, në Ekuador dhe Shqipëri. Dhe autoritetet shqiptare e akuzojnë Rexhepin se ka urdhëruar dhe drejtuar nga qelia e tij e burgut rrëmbimin dhe vrasjen e Jan Prengës, trupi i të cilit nuk është gjetur ende.
Në të njëjtën kohë, shërbimet e policisë po hetojnë, pjesërisht në bazë të bisedave të bëra të lexueshme nga Sky ECC, tregtinë e kokainës që Rexhepi thuhet se e drejtonte nga qelia e tij në Ekuador. Drejtësia italiane supozon se ai është njeriu pas një sërë ngarkesash të mëdha kokaine nga Ekuadori.
50-50 oferta
Përveç kësaj, ai do t’i kishte pranuar ato sasi për “vetëm” më shumë se 4000 dollarë për kilogram nga partnerët e tij të Amerikës Latine. Transportet për në Holandë dhe Belgjikë do të bëheshin sipas një marrëveshjeje 50-50, në të cilën Rexhepi përdorte linjat e partnerëve të tij, të cilët shtonin një kilogram tjetër për çdo kilogram të transportuar. Kriminelët nga komunitetet shqiptare në Holandë dhe Belgjikë siguruan pritjen e sigurt dhe në Roterdam dhe Antwerp tonelatat e kokainës rishiteshin ose rishpërndaheshin nga 22,000 deri në 24,000 për kilogram.
According to Italian police files, the network used Chinese exchangers to launder drug profits paid in the Netherlands. The Italians say they made a turnover of 210 million euros from Rexhepi. Although the Dutch and Belgian police are investigating local Albanian networks, Italian justice assumes that the network of distributors in the Benelux and also Rexhep's network in South America is intact.
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