The member of a criminal group and the leader of another drug-trafficking group have been extradited from Albania to Italy.
The first case concerns the 40-year-old Ardian Sufaj alias Pllumb Sufaj , who was arrested in Shengjin on June 13, 2023.
During the period 2022-2023, the criminal organization to which the 40-year-old belonged is suspected of having trafficked about 100 kg of the narcotic substance cocaine, from Ecuador, with the aim of selling it in Italy.
However, the drug load was stolen during transportation. It seems that Sufaj had fallen on the trail of "thieves" and, in cooperation with other people, it is suspected that he took a 40-year-old hostage and threatened him with a gun, in order to give him information about the theft of narcotics.
For him, the Court of Appeal of Trieste has assigned the security measure "Arrest in prison", for the criminal offenses "Trafficking in narcotics", carried out in the framework of the criminal organization, as well as "Hijacking".
Meanwhile, a 56-year-old man, Artur Ademi alias Artur Liçaj, has been extradited to Italy, to whom the Court of Lecce has assigned the security measure "Arrest in prison", for the criminal offense "Trafficking of narcotics", committed as part of a criminal group. .
During the 2018-2019 period, he led a criminal group that trafficked the narcotic cocaine, from the Netherlands to Italy and from Albania to Italy. Ademi was arrested on September 2, 2022 in the city of Vlora.