The Brescia Prosecutor's Office requested the help of SPAK for the arrest of Kreshnik "Budlla" Farruk , head of the criminal group with the same name and 11 members of his organization.
During the action organized on Wednesday morning, only Arjanit Maloku and Jurgen Kaçurri were handcuffed, while the police failed to handcuff the other 10.
Yesterday, 21 apartments were searched, including the luxurious villa of Kreshnik Farruk, in Armadha i Manza.
"The investigation revealed the existence of a structured criminal group, which carried out the criminal activity of trafficking cocaine-type narcotics from Latin American countries towards the countries of the European Union, mainly Italy. This criminal group carried out criminal activity in Italy, Albania, Poland and Switzerland", says the announcement of SPAK.
According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, the criminal group was also involved in money laundering, through a countless network of companies, run by an Italian-Chinese organization, created for this purpose, which had issued false invoices for an amount of around 375 million Euros.
The action was coordinated by the Italian authorities, the agency EUROJUST and EUROPOL , SPAK and the Albanian police .
In total, the Italian Prosecutor's Office issued 61 arrest warrants and seized millions of euros in assets.
The members of the organization are accused of "Trafficking in narcotics", "Money laundering", and "Fraud in investments in large amounts".
Who is Kreshnik Farruku? Albanian with 10 names and €920,000 property in Lalzi Bay!
Kreshnik Farruku (Budlla) is a well-known name in the world of crime, who has used 10 names to escape justice, as he is better known as Kreshnik Farruku.
In May 2019, he was arrested in Spain, along with his brother and another member of the tribe.
Budlla was handcuffed in a hotel in Madrid after several months of investigation and pursuit by the police, as he was wanted in Spain and Italy for cocaine trafficking and theft of several apartments, while he was also investigated for a murder in Spain.
According to the Spanish media, Kreshnik Budlla was suspected of killing his boss in Spain in 2010, due to drug deals.
But after the investigation, the Spanish prosecutors concluded that the murder had been prepared by Devi Kasmi, who was killed in an assassination attempt in January 2018 in Tirana.
In May 2010, Farruku was arrested along with seven other gang members in Barcelona with 20 kg of cocaine he was trying to smuggle into Italy by car.
After his imprisonment, it was younger brother Ernie who took over the leadership of the group, but was arrested two years later in 2012.
In 2014, Kreshnik Farruku escaped from prison while continuing to deal with drug trafficking, until he was arrested in 2019.
In 2015, Kreshnik Farruk was assassinated in Albania. He was in the company of his brother-in-law, Rinald Budlla, and two friends, when he was shot in the "Don Bosko" area, while a passerby was injured.
The track at that time was related to the disruption of drug deals in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Meanwhile, in 2012, the Court of Durrës imposed a preventive seizure on assets that reach a total figure of about 1 million euros in his ownership.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, these assets were suspected to have been created by his illegal activities and were used by his two family members, Reshit Farruku (father) and Roland Farruku (whose brother was assassinated in 2014 in Manez), residents of Shijak in Durrës.
The investigations showed that Reshit and Roland Farruku had bought a property worth 920,000 euros in the area of Lalzi Bay, as well as having a bank account in the amount of 6,271,000 lek that was seized.