Ilir Paja, otherwise known as 'Ufo', will serve his sentence in Albania. Ilir Paja will not be extradited to Italy, where he is sentenced to 24 years and 8 months in prison, but he will serve the sentence in our country.
Paja has been sentenced by the Italian authorities to 25 years in prison for the criminal offense of ' murder carried out in cooperation ' and ' kidnapping '. Italy had requested the extradition of 'Ufo', but on the other hand the Prosecutor had requested that Paja serve the sentence here and today this decision was recognized by the Court.
Ilir Paja was arrested in November 2022 in Tirana, in a bar in Laprakë. He has taken shelter for a long time with some of his relatives. During the arrest, the police seized an amount of 5 thousand euros. It took the police 3 months to prove that the person they were monitoring was the most wanted by Italian justice, sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and kidnapping, events that happened around 2006.
Paja was arrested in March 2008 after driving a criminal police officer in Tirana, who recognized that he had the most wanted man in front of him. After almost 10 years in prison, in November 2017, Ilir Paja was released on bail before the end of the sentence by judge Enkeleida Hoxha, with the claim that he suffered from a number of diseases, health problems proven by medical reports.
Almost a decade ago, Ilir Paja received the nickname " Ufo " from the Italian police. The reason was his two spectacular escapes from high security prisons in the neighboring country.