
Klodjan Çopja, one of the biggest drug traffickers in Great Britain, is the first prisoner to be transferred to Albania to serve the remainder of his 17-year prison sentence.
The 36-year-old will continue his sentence in our country, as a result of the agreement on the transfer of prisoners, saving the British state tens of thousands of pounds, British media write.
Chopja was arrested in 2017 following a police crackdown on a £150 million cocaine-trafficking network that supplied London and the east of Britain. He spent four years on the run before being caught at the border between Greece and Albania with a fake passport and extradited to Britain.
The Directorate of Prisons in Albania confirmed to the British media that the transfer of Çopja was carried out weeks ago.
12 convicted for murder, rape and more than 100 convicted for drugs and firearms are also expected to be transferred to Albania to continue the rest of their imprisonment there.
The agreement on the transfer of the prisoners was reached last year and one of the goals announced by the British government is to save the financial damage on the British taxpayers, since it is calculated that a prisoner there costs the country 109 pounds a day, while the cost in Albania is calculated at 32 pounds a day. /The Sun
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