Sheltered in an apartment in Pristina, Arben Lamçja alias (Dobrova) from Elbasani thought he had given up on the police pursuit, but a "FAST" police search team tracked him down to his arrest, as part of the criminal group that was run by the Chopja brothers in Dubai.
Lamçja is accused by SPAK of the criminal offense of " Providing the conditions to commit murder " committed in the form of a " Structured Criminal Group ".
But this is not his first experience with Albanian justice.
Initially, his name appears in the records of Italian court convictions, since in March 2011, he was sentenced by the Brescia court to 12 years of imprisonment for the charge of Exploitation of prostitution and "Criminal cooperation".
But this sentence was increased by another two years by the Court of Appeal of Brescia, sentencing Lamçja to 14 years in prison.
Arben Lamçja was extradited to Italy to serve his sentence, but due to an amnesty, he only served 3 years of imprisonment.
While another sentencing decision taken by the Bologna court has been denied that the execution by the Italian authorities, after his extradition to that country.
The same fact, judged in both decisions, consisted of the exploitation of a foreign citizen as a prostitute during the period November-December 1999 to February 2000.
On November 8, 2011, the Anti-Organized Crime and Traffic Sector in the Elbasan Police Directorate arrested Arben Lamçja, based on the arrest warrant no. 6559/00 R GIP, dated March 26, 2011, issued by the Court of Brescia, Italy.
The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance for Serious Crimes has registered the property proceedings of 2011 against the citizen Arben Lamcja, investigating his assets and those of his relatives, for the period 2000-2011 and following.
On the basis of the material referred by the criminal police, in 2011, the Serious Crimes Prosecution opened a property investigation and it resulted that for Arben Lamçja alias "Dobrova", assets were identified which are not justified from an economic point of view and were suspected to flow from from the criminal activity of this person, who has been convicted by the Italian justice authorities, for the criminal offense of "Criminal Cooperation" and "Exploitation of Prostitution".
In parallel with the Serious Crimes that launched a property investigation through the "Antimafia" law, for this case, the prosecutor's office of Elbasan also launched an investigation for the criminal offense of "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense", investigating his assets and those of his relatives. for the period 2000-2011 and following.
In this investigation, Arben Lamçja has been charged with the above criminal offense, causing the prosecution to request a trial of the case.
But on May 30, 2013, the Court of Elbasan decided to dismiss the case with the claim that the elements of the criminal offense attributed to Arben Lamçja did not exist.
On the other hand, Serious Crimes decided to seize a series of assets in the name of Arben and his brother Sokol Lamçja in Elbasan. The assets seized on July 28, 2016 were a 120 m2 plot in Tirana, a 340 m2 plot in Tirana, a 46 m2 shop in Elbasan, a 97 m2 shop in Elbasan, as well as two businesses called " Elba Beton " with administrator AO and "Elba Import" again with administrator AO
The sequestration of these assets is also upheld in the Court of Appeal for Serious Crimes. But this decision was partially overturned on April 5, 2017 in the Supreme Court, which decided to release the assets of "Elba Beton" and "Elba Import".
According to the Supreme Court, these assets were initially opened by Arben Lamçja and then through regular contracts he sold them for 170 million lek to two businessmen from Elbasan AO and BR
But a few years later, the investigation into other assets in Serious Crimes was closed, releasing all the seized properties of Arben Lamçjas.