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SPAK has sent to the Ministry of Justice the request regarding the extradition of Gëzim Çela, who was arrested on Friday afternoon in Kosovo.
It is now expected that the Ministry of Justice will process the file and forward it to the Ministry of Justice in Kosovo.
After that, the Court of Kosovo is expected to issue a decision on extradition. The procedures are the same as with any other country, but they are facilitated because of the language and no translation is needed.
Since 2006, Gëzim Çela was wanted by the police for international drug trafficking. It was based in the Fushë Kuqe area.
Çela also had the support of the head of the police station, who was arrested a short time ago also by order of SPAK through the operation "Flame at Sea".
But who is Gëzim Çela?
He allegedly used his villa in Fushë Kuqe for drug trafficking. It was there that the police found 18 kilograms of cocaine some time ago. In June 2014, the Albanian and Kosovar police destroyed a structured criminal group, which trafficked hard drugs from Turkey to Western Europe, also using the territory of Albania.
At the border point of Morini in Kukës, the citizen, Erald Hysolli, was arrested with 7 kilograms of cocaine. He was a drug courier, who was supplied in Pristina. At the same time, 3 people were arrested red-handed in the capital of Kosovo, and 50 kilograms of cocaine and heroin were seized.
However, during the search in Çela's villa in Fushë Kuqe in Kurbin, they found not only 18 kilograms of cocaine, but also 150 kilograms of cannabis sativa.
Police forces also seized 9 weapons, 3 snipers, grenades and armored cars. Çela was released by the Albanian court with the argument that he was suffering from a serious illness. Then he was arrested for falsifying the medical card and was put under "house arrest". When the police surrounded Çela's house in Mamurras, he was not there.
When the drug arrived in Albania, it was sent to Gëzim Cela's villa in Fushë Kuqe, from where it was distributed to western countries. Çela had turned the family's villa into a laboratory for mixing drugs. Çela was wanted as the head of this drug trafficking network. For him, there is a sentence from the Italian court with 11 years of imprisonment, as well as a 150,000 euro fine, under the charge of international drug trafficking. Gëzim Çela, before being implicated in drug trafficking and being the head of a cocaine trafficking gang, was an officer of the Special Police Forces. He held this position before 1997.
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