At the request of SPAK, GJKKO has issued an arrest warrant for the two Duka brothers, Leonard and Erlis Duka. Controls were also carried out in their homes, in the SPAK operation that has spread to several cities in the country.
The Duka 'clan' are also known as the sworn enemies of Ervis Martianj, the gambling boss who has been missing since August 2022, whose fate is still unknown.
The Duke's name is well known to the judiciary, but also to the Albanian public. He was arrested in 2019 by a super operation for the fight against drug trafficking
The "Duka" group has been filed as a structured Albanian-German drug trafficking group.
Leonard Duka was called by his friends as "Prince Damian", a nickname which, according to him, reflects luxury and expensive life.
How did the enmity between Leonard Duke and Ervis Martinaj start?
Ervis Martinaj, who has been one of the biggest gambling bosses in Albania, circulating tens of millions of euros as well as a major investor in the construction sector, had become the most expensive 'prey' of his rivals, "Klani Duka" has often been mentioned for this 'prey'.
The head of the "Duke" clan, Leonardi and Martinaj had previously been friends and partners in the gambling business, then they had fierce clashes and were involved in a conflict precisely because of this activity worth several million. After the breakup of the partnership between them, Martinaj took a hostage and abused Duke's father. After that, it was Duka's turn to take revenge on Martinaj, initially wanting to eliminate him physically, but after failing, he executed his right-hand man, Santiago Malko.
Since 2019, several assassination attempts have been planned and attempted against him, but in all cases he was able to escape. In 2019, there was a concrete plan for the elimination of Ervis Martinaj. The Duka clan was able to recruit a citizen with the initials N.SH who at that time worked in a tourist agency and had detailed information about Martinaj's movements and flights from Albania to various EU countries. Together with her fiancé, she made this information available to the Duka clan against a sum of 30,000 euros. Leonard Duka, could not physically eliminate Ervis Martinaj and according to SPAK executed his right wing Santiago Malko.
In the wake of this "hunt" for the millionaire, Vis Martinaj, who since the closure of sports betting has led a retired life (but armored with an "army" of young people who protect him) in remote rural areas in the Laç axis - Patok Valley, his opponents have been able to eliminate so far some of his closest people while Martinaj himself has disappeared.
Former policeman Santiago Malko, Fabian Gaxha, Erigers Mihasi, first cousin Brilant Martinaj (and 2 others in the Fushë Kruja assassination; while in Milot a few days later Klisman Preçi was killed and Martinaj's right arm, Ylli Brahimi, was seriously injured ... are the people who have been attacked and eliminated. The elimination of Santiago Malko is thought to have come after the conflicts of the "Duka" clan with the missing Ervis Martinaj over the gambling territory, a conflict that started after a strong friendship, for which only the policeman Jeton Lami is in prison, for whom the investigations have been closed.
Leonard Duka was arrested on February 14, 2023 in a province of Brussels in Belgium.