DETAILS/ "The Drug Lord" is extradited to Italy, he was caught feeding the chickens in Durrës!

2023-09-01 17:06:19Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
DETAILS/ "The Drug Lord" is extradited to Italy, he was caught feeding
Alket Hatija

Alket Hatija, also known as "Baron" or "Drug Lord" after trafficking 540 kilograms of heroin and cocaine in Italy in 2003-2004, was extradited on Thursday to Italy, where he will serve a 20-year prison sentence. by the Milan Court of Appeal in 2015.

The 50-year-old, who fought at all levels of the judiciary to avoid extradition, was caught on Wednesday in the early hours of the morning at his hotel in the city of Durrës.

The police intervened around 04:00, when the long-wanted for five years had just woken up from his sleep and was feeding the chickens in an area behind the hotel.

Hatija, who had lost his extradition battle in a constitutional court ruling in January 2022, tried to leave as soon as he realized the presence of police forces, resisting but was eventually handcuffed.

The Durrës police had received accurate information about his location, and had been monitoring his every move for 20 days.

The only hours that Hatija was exposed were in the morning, when there was minimal movement of vacationers even in the hotel.

Just a few hours after his arrest in Durrës, Hatija was handed over to the Italian authorities, who will once again calculate the prison time he has left to serve, because the 50-year-old has been arrested several times in our country earlier and has served a part of the sentence in custody.

According to the investigations in Italy, 20 years ago Alket Hatija, in cooperation with 40 other people, transported large quantities of heroin and cocaine from Albania.

Hatija was arrested in 2017, but a few months later the Court of Durrës refused extradition and lifted the "prison arrest" measure, a decision that was also upheld by the Appeal.

Subsequently, the Supreme Court once again returned it to the First Instance, which this time together with Apel accepted the extradition.

But, Alket Hatija did not give up, from the escape and through his defenders he sent the case to the Constitutional Court, which finally put an end to the judicial ordeal on January 31, 2022, leaving in effect his final extradition to Milan.


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