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Sensational/ The testimony of a businessman from Berat in the British court: A group of killers in Albania committed murders on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior!

2026-04-21 10:19:18Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Talo ÇELA/ Businessman: Irfan Azizi

An Albanian criminal should not be sent back to face justice because the assassins who previously tried to kill him will return to “finish the job”, a court heard.

Irfan Azizi told an extradition hearing that he narrowly escaped death when he was shot " 30 times " during an attack in 2020, which prompted him to flee to Britain.

The 36-year-old said that the criminal group that attempted to kill him " also carried out assassinations of judges and politicians " and would seek revenge if he returned to Albania.

This repeat offender is now seeking asylum in the United Kingdom with his wife, after previously being housed in a taxpayer-funded hotel.

Sensational/ The testimony of a businessman from Berat in the British court: A
Irfan Azizi

Yesterday, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that Azizi is wanted in Albania to serve a one-year prison sentence, after being convicted in absentia for possession of a mobile phone while in custody for other offences.

During a strange exchange, Azizi admitted that he had already paid the Albanian judge to close the case and suggested that this meant he was no longer a wanted person.

British court records show that Azizi and another Albanian were each sentenced to six months in prison at Swindon Crown Court in April 2025 for possession of forged German patents.

Azizi also has a long criminal history in Albania, including involvement in illegal gambling networks.

In February 2019, he was sentenced to two years in prison for theft, before receiving an additional sentence of two years and three months in June for stealing a Mercedes-Benz B-Class. But just five months later he was free and back on the streets.

The attempted assassination of him occurred on November 29, 2020. He described seeing a vehicle stop outside a gas station, before a gunman emerged carrying a Kalashnikov.

“They started shooting at me, about 30 bullets,” he told Westminster Magistrates’ Court. “One bullet hit my hand, which broke in 13 places.”

The mastermind of the assassination has been widely reported in Albanian media as Talo Çela, a former close friend of Aziz, who is currently one of the most wanted criminals in Albania.

Çela is suspected of having links to the Çopja criminal gang, a major supplier of cocaine to London.

Azizi, the son of a farmer, said he left Albania by bus five weeks after the assassination, arriving in Britain a few days later.

He stayed with friends and a cousin, before moving to Sheffield in September 2021, where his wife joined him.

Azizi claimed to have been a "wealthy businessman" in Albania, with three gas stations, as well as car washes and a coffee bar.

But after his wife joined him in the UK, the couple sought asylum on the grounds that they feared persecution in their home country and took refuge in a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in Wiltshire.

They then moved to their current home in Taunton along with their four children, who receive specialist support from the local council.

Aziz told the extradition hearing that he had paid to have the phone charge dropped, but claimed he had done nothing wrong.

He told the judge: " This is the method: you pay money to close the case. I didn't cheat, I bribed. If there's a prison sentence and if you want him to disappear, you pay ."

Azizi insisted that he would cooperate with the investigation into the assassination attempt against him and return to Albania to testify, but only if the main suspect is found and charged.

He said he had already given a full statement to Albanian prosecutors.

During cross-examination, Mr Ball suggested that Aziz was exaggerating the power of the criminal group that had tried to kill him. He stressed that there had been no threat to him during his five years in the UK.

He added that his wife and four children had not been threatened while living in Albania before joining him in Britain in September 2021.

"These people have committed murders for the Prime Minister on his orders and also for the Minister of the Interior. I have evidence. They don't warn you when they are going to kill you, they just come for you. The first time they came to shoot me they didn't warn me or threaten me beforehand. I can go and give evidence too, but I'm afraid for my family and wife. If I go to Albania, they will kill me and, to prevent this from happening, I will have to kill them, and I don't want to commit any crime while defending myself," Azizi replied.

The court heard that extradition would have a devastating impact on Aziz's wife, but Mr Ball argued that they still face deportation if their asylum claim is rejected. / Taken from Daily Mail , adapted into Albanian by VOX News

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