Interpol Tirana has extradited 42-year-old Lekë Prendi alias Aleks Kola alias Nikolin Pacani from the United Kingdom to Albania.
The Shkodër Court of Appeal has sentenced Lekë Prendi to 21 years in prison for the criminal offenses of "Murder committed in collaboration", "Theft resulting in death" and "Carrying a weapon without a permit".
In 2000, Prendi killed the priest from Puka, Gjovalin Prendi, during a robbery of a bus with clergy in Kukës.
But how did Lekë Prendi find itself in Great Britain?
Lekë Prendi went to England claiming to be a war refugee from Kosovo named Aleks Kola, which he still uses until his arrest in July 2013.
The police discovered that his fingerprints were similar to a man wanted internationally by Interpol for the robbery of the bus with 22 clergymen in Kukes that resulted in the killing of one person.
In 2014, a judge at Westminster High Court gave the "green light" that he could be extradited, but in June 2015 he won the right from the High Court to block his extradition to Albania.
The Albanian got his freedom after presenting to the Court the evidence that the person wanted by Interpol was 167 cm tall, while he was a full 178 cm. Among other things, he added the fact that the person wanted by Albanian justice did not look like him at all.
But his freedom did not last long as the Albanian authorities requested his extradition again after sending more evidence to Britain, which proved that Aleks Kola was the most wanted Albanian.
The Albanian authorities sent the fingerprints that were also provided by the Italian counterparts, and finally Prendi admitted that he was the most wanted and for a long time had also used the pseudonym Nikolin Pacini.
After a second extradition hearing in Westminster, Judge Tan Ikram ruled that Aleks Kola and Lekë Prendi were the same person and that he should be extradited to Albania.