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His escape took the life of the Italian agent, as the member of the Çela clan laundered €14 million worth of drugs! (The multiple lives of Genti Berisha)

2026-11-09 10:12:00Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
His escape took the life of the Italian agent, as the member of the Çela
Genti Berisha

Investigations by the Milan Antimafia have led to the seizure of two companies, the discovery of international trafficking of 240 kilograms of cocaine and the laundering of 14 million euros. 

But the file also turns out to be linked to the escape of Albanian Genti Berisha, which later resulted in the death of officer Francesco Imprezzabile during his motorcycle chase, at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour.

Berisha said he fled because he had “a few grams of hashish” with him and “had misjudged the situation.”

But there is more to the 26-year-old Albanian's story than the night of June 22-23 when, while driving a rented Audi Q8 SUV, he disobeyed an order to stop on Vittorini Street, thus causing the pursuit during which the 39-year-old police officer lost his life. 

A few hours after the incident, he expressed remorse in court, apologized to the victim's family, and stated that he was willing to compensate the family. The court placed him under house arrest.

After this story, his name appears in the aforementioned scheme of international laundering of 14 million euros that came from drugs.

The money was converted into 8 kilograms of gold bars, which were traced by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Finance Guard in Lecco, through Italian precious metals processing companies in the Alessandria area, which were used as a cover for criminal activity.

The gold was then transferred from Italy to its final destination: Albania.

In the decision by which prosecutors Paolo Storari and Rosario Ferracane, together with the additional prosecutor in charge of the economic crimes department, Roberto Pellicano, ordered the immediate preventive seizure of the two companies, the name of Genti Berisha and several of his family members reappears, including his wife Armela Luka.

This concerns the company Target Srl, based in Milan and Alessandria (Valmadonna), specialized in the sale of precious metals, the smelting, refining and production of gold bars for investment, as well as the company Futuro Immobiliare Srl, which served as the financial safe of the criminal group that includes 52 people under investigation. This company was used for real estate investments and owned 24 properties, including apartments, residences, warehouses, shops and garages, in several provinces of northern Italy.

The 24-page document states that Genti Berisha was one of the people to whom the "illegal profits" from drug trafficking were to be delivered. In fact, the money was to be delivered directly to "their apartment."

On December 29, 2020, an interlocutor communicated with him via an encrypted messaging system. Investigators have identified him with a code: “2PBCSP.”

Coded conversation: “Brother... send me that money to Alicante.”

He discusses with the 26-year-old about 300 thousand euros that were to be sent to Cologne, Germany and made available in Alicante, Spain.

"Brother... send me that money in Alicante... because I am connected to Cologne," he writes.

Berisha sends a photo with the address in Germany – Kalk-Mulheimer Strasse 268 – where the “courier” was supposed to “deliver the money”: 366,650 euros.

"Your friend, brother, gives it to me here... 355 thousand + 3%."

The address belongs to Ilir Ahmetaj's apartment, one of the cash collection points, which investigators link to cocaine trafficking.

On November 25, 2021, another member of the Albanian Berisha family, Hashimi, hands over the sum of 367,300 euros in cash to a company employee in Alessandria.

Two days later, he hauled 7.2 kilograms of gold, in the area between Rocchetta Ligure and Valmadonna, and hid it in a double compartment of a Mercedes vehicle that was headed towards Albania.

The eavesdropping microphones in the vehicle recorded his conversations and movements.

But was drug trafficking behind the 26-year-old's escape and disobedience to a police checkpoint five months ago, an event that led to the death of a Milan Municipal Police officer? Or was it all because of "a few grams" of hashish?

"It is reasonable to think that he left for this very reason," says an investigator, although without being completely certain.

The questions can only be answered by the young Albanian himself, who in the meantime, in July, was returned to prison due to the increased security measures. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison in a summary trial as part of the "Icaro" investigation of the Brescia Anti-Mafia Directorate.

In October, he was returned to house arrest, where he awaits to learn his judicial fate regarding the death of Francesco Imprezzabile.

Last year, the 25-year-old was arrested in Albania as part of the Brescia prosecutor's "Icaro" operation, which hit the Çela clan and its cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe./ IlGiorno


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