
SPAK sends 4 defendants for trial for drug trafficking
The Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime completed the investigations and has sent for trial before the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime in Tirana the criminal proceeding No. 150 of 2022, against 4 defendants;
1. Islam Sefa (alias Xaka) – accused of committing the following criminal offenses:
i. “Drug trafficking”, committed in the special form of cooperation, that of a structured criminal group, and more than once in 9 episodes (the one before 08.04.2020, and the episodes of 08.04.2020, 30.04.2020, 15.05.2020, 22.05.2020, 29-31.05.2020, 02.02.2021, 24.02.2021 and 01.03.2021), provided for by articles 283/a/2 and 28 point 4 of the Criminal Code, in connection with article 334/1 of the Criminal Code “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization or a structured criminal group”,
ii. "Structured criminal group", committed in the form of leadership provided for by Article 333/a/1 of the Criminal Code.
2. Hajdar Lala (alias Xaka, alias Sefa) – accused of committing the following criminal offenses:
i. “Drug trafficking”, committed in the special form of cooperation, that of a structured criminal group, and more than once in 4 episodes (dated 08.04.2020, 30.04.2020, 22.05.2020 and 29.05.2020), provided for by articles 283/a/2 and 28 point 4 of the Criminal Code, in connection with article 334/1 of the Criminal Code “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization or a structured criminal group”,
ii. “Structured criminal group”, committed in the form of leadership provided for by article 333/a/1 of the Criminal Code.
3. Vidjan Baroka – accused of committing the following criminal offenses:
i. “Drug trafficking”, committed in the special form of cooperation, that of a structured criminal group, and more than once in 4 episodes (dated 08.04.2020, 08.04.2020, 30.04.2020, 22.05.2020), provided for by articles 283/a/2 and 28 point 4 of the Criminal Code, in connection with article 334/1 of the Criminal Code “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization or a structured criminal group”,
ii. “Structured criminal group”, committed in the form of participation provided for by article 333/a/2 of the Criminal Code.
4. Durim Xaka – accused of committing the following criminal offenses:
i. “Drug trafficking”, committed in the special form of cooperation, that of a structured criminal group, and more than once in 7 episodes (the one before 08.04.2020, and the episodes of 08.04.2020, 30.04.2020, 15.05.2020, 22.05.2020, 29-31.05.2020 and 02.02.2021), 283/a/2 and 28 point 4 of the Criminal Code, in connection with Article 334/1 of the Criminal Code “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization or a structured criminal group”,
ii. "Structured criminal group", committed in the form of participation provided for by Article 333/a/2 of the Criminal Code.
From the entirety of the investigations carried out, the German-Albanian cooperation in the fight against organized crime and based on the communications developed on the encrypted platforms, EncroChat and SkyEcc, evidence has been administered within the framework of mutual legal assistance in the criminal field, which has identified 12 people, 8 of whom are Albanian citizens and 4 German citizens, involved in the illegal criminal activity of drug trafficking.
The quantity of narcotics was mainly supplied from Albania and Spain and, after entering German territory, was traded in the Wolfsburg and Magdeburg regions, as well as in other European Union countries.
The investigations have resulted and proven that the defendants and their associates during the years 2020-2021 trafficked into Germany a quantity of more than 1000 kg of marijuana, the value of which amounts to 3,374,400 (three million three hundred seventy thousand four hundred) euros.
From the acts administered for this criminal proceeding, it has resulted and been proven that the defendants, Islam Sefa (alias Xaka), and Hajdar Lala (alias Sefa, alias Xaka) had a leading and financing role in the illegal criminal activity of narcotics trafficking, while the defendants, Vidjan Baroka and Durim Xaka and their associates prosecuted and convicted in Germany, had an auxiliary role.
In order to identify other associates of the defendants who participated in these episodes, criminal proceedings No. 150 of 2022 were separated, numbered as criminal proceedings No. 150/1 of 2024, and the investigation continued.