
Kujtim Çelik was arrested in Turkey together with the police officer, Florenc Bicerri, after they were caught with a significant amount of narcotics. Çelik is a well-known name to the police as he was accused of theft, in 2011 he was arrested on charges of robbery.
Çelik, an army officer, in the "Commando" special forces department, had carried out 5 peacekeeping missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was wanted for months on the charge of robbery against a businessman in Durrës. Kujtim Celiku, 33 years old, at that time from the village of Mullet in Tirana, was detained at his home by the forces of Commissariat No. 1.
There was a restraining order against Çelik from the Durrës Prosecutor's Office, since in cooperation with 3 other people they were accused of robbing a businessman, who was engaged in gold trading. The event for which he was accused happened in May 2017, near the house of the businessman with the initials MB, whose bag with 176 gold rings, with a value of 30 million ALL, was stolen.
But, after the arrest, the charge of robbery was not the only one that burdened the 33-year-old Çeliku, since during the search in his apartment, in Mullet, Tirana, ammunition and tritol molds were also found, which he was carrying without permission.
According to police sources at the time, Capt. Kujtim Celiku was preparing for another peacekeeping mission in Iraq, which would start in two weeks.
The name of Kujtim Muharrem Çelik appears in the list of 58 peacekeeping commandos, who were decorated in 2003 with the medal "For Military Services", awarded by the President of the Republic.