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The State Police have arrested Sokol Bushpepa, 45 years old, sentenced in Italy to over 5 years in prison as a member of a criminal organization and for drug trafficking.
According to an official announcement, the Police arrested Bushpepa as part of the operation codenamed "Operation 92".
He was arrested in the "Vasil Shanto" neighborhood, and is expected to be extradited to Italy.
"The structures of the Directorate of the Special Operational Force, in the Criminal Police Department, based on operational information, located and arrested the citizen Kol Bushpepa alias Sokol Bushpepa, 45 years old, resident of Rrëshen.
This citizen was declared internationally wanted by Interpol Rome, after the Court of Appeal, Italy, sentenced him to 5 years, 3 months and 10 days, for the criminal offenses of "Criminal Organization" and "Drug Trafficking". He has 4 years and 18 days of imprisonment left to serve.
"Legal procedures for the extradition of this citizen are ongoing, in cooperation with the Italian justice authorities," the official announcement in Tirana states.
Italian media described Colonel Bushpepa as the leader of the Albanian gang specializing in cocaine trafficking in Mestre and Venice.
"Colonel Bushpepa is part of a criminal family network that has actually been a holding company dealing in drug trafficking for at least 15 years and has recently expanded into investments.
Especially in accommodation facilities, which in turn allow for further illegal profits, given that tourists often pay in cash.
Making money with marijuana, the Albanian family that includes Kol Bushpepa, along with relatives, friends and acquaintances, all Albanian, has long been dealing in hard drugs, which generate much higher profits than marijuana. This is thanks to the fact that Mestre is a major center for the narcotics trade, as demonstrated by police investigations and, even more so, by overdose deaths that have made Mestre one of the capitals of heroin-related deaths.
And the Albanians have long been able to rely on an efficient drug supply network. They even have their own cocaine brokers who buy directly from drug cartels in Latin America, and recently the Albanian mafia has become so strong that it is also supplying the 'Ndrangheta, which has always held a monopoly on cocaine trafficking throughout Northern Europe,” the Italian media article states.
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