After the signing of the agreement between the government of Albania and that of Great Britain, it is expected that in November, the extradition of Albanians serving sentences in British prisons to our country will begin.
The British media "The Telegraph" has made a long article where it writes that among the prisoners who will be extradited to Albania there are also 17 murderers, among them one of the most dangerous names also known as "Tony Montana".
Full article from "The Telegraph"
One of Albania's most 'cruel' serial killers is among 17 convicted murderers who will be deported from Britain to our country, to serve the remainder of their sentence under a new deal.
Killer Mane Driza, 45, who used the alias of Al Pacino's character 'Scarface', is among the killers who have been sentenced by British courts to a total of 336 years in prison.
He will be deported under a deal ratified last week in which Britain will pay Albania £4 million a year to repatriate 200 of Albania's most dangerous criminals jailed for crimes including murder, rape, burglary and drug dealing.
They will serve the same sentence as they would have done in England, but it will cost Britain only a quarter of the £40,000 annual award, which, for this group of murderers, would have been £13.4 million over 336 years.
Driza, also known as 'Tony Montana' or 'Scarface', shot dead a father and son in Albania in 1997 before fleeing to Britain. Then, in 1999, he killed fellow countryman Stefan Mone, with a knife and an axe. After the macabre crime, he fled to Italy, where he killed two men in Sicily six months later.
The second to be deported is Koçi Selamaj, 37, a former garage worker sentenced to a minimum of 36 years in prison for the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nesa in September 2021.
His refusal to appear in the dock to hear his sentence has prompted Justice Secretary Alex Chalk to rewrite UK laws to force offenders to face court.
Ali Qazimaj, 49, was jailed for at least 35 years after murdering elderly couple Peter Stuart, 75, and his wife Sylvia, 69, near their home in Suffolk in June 2016. He had worked as a carer for a relative of the Stuarts' son-in-law and the body has never been found.
Erland Spahiu, 34, was sentenced to a minimum of 35 years for his role in the abduction and murder of ex-boxer Christopher Hughes in Lancashire.
The 37-year-old suffered nearly 100 separate injuries after being chased by a vigilante gang who mistakenly believed the father had raped a teenage girl.
Erion Voja, 22, was the second member of the eight-man gang to be sentenced to a total of 229 years in prison for Hughes' murder. As they took him to the cell to serve his 23-year sentence, Voja shouted: "I know myself, I'm not a murderer."
Besnik Berisha, 45, was jailed for 33 years after posing as a police officer to stab a friend 42 times in a brutal execution outside a school. The victim, Shkelqim Paja, a 36-year-old father, had requested the repayment of a loan of 15 thousand pounds for Berisha.
Eugert Merizaj, 33, was jailed for 32 years for killing a fellow drug dealer with a sawed-off shotgun at black point, while Lundrim Gjikokaj, 40, was jailed for 28 years for killing a 27-year-old fellow Albanian to avoid paying off a £250,000 debt.
Elton Sefa, 27, was jailed for 22 years for murdering fellow construction worker John Woodward after a row at a high-rise construction site in Hatton Garden, east London.
Josif Nushi, 27, an Albanian gang member, was sentenced to 20 years for beating to death a man who had tried to steal drugs from them, as was Mihal Dhana, 29, sentenced to 16 years for murdering Tomasz Waga, 23.
Waga's sister told Newport Crown Court that her brother's body had been "dumped like a bag of rubbish".
Radian Lika, 36, and Brikel Palaj, 33, were both sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for stabbing a fellow Albanian to death in a knife fight over a cannabis crop. Albanians Dorian Pirija, 33, and Qazim Marku, 25, were jailed for 19 years after a dispute over a cannabis farm resulted in murder.
Erlin Hasa, jailed for 23 years, was described as a monster in court after he stabbed a man to death in an unprovoked attack at a flat.
Ulsi Manja, the Albanian justice minister, said they aimed to have the first transfers in September following applications to Albanian courts to recognize sentences handed down by UK judges.