PHOTO/ This is the powerful ALBANIAN drug boss who was captured in Colombia!

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PHOTO/ This is the powerful ALBANIAN drug boss who was captured in Colombia!
PHOTO: Genti Krasniqi

Genti Krasniqi , an Albanian citizen considered a drug lord in Colombia, has been arrested by authorities after 9 years on the run.

Local media report that the 62-year-old entered Colombia in 2023 and stayed in Bogota and other suburban cities.

In 2016, the Milan (Italy) Prosecutor's Office discovered that a luxury apartment was being used by a couple (a young Italian woman and an Albanian man) to hide heroin shipments coming from Tirana.

Although both were caught, the man managed to flee Italy and became a fugitive. He has since been wanted by Interpol, which issued a red notice last January and notified its counterparts in Colombia. In Albania, there are no charges against him.

Although there were indications that the Albanian had moved to South America, it was a surprise in Milan that he had been found 8,900 kilometers away, in the cold city of Tunja.

Colombian Immigration officials immediately identified him and launched an operation to capture him.

In Boyacá, he presented himself as a foreign tourist, but EL TIEMPO found his name in court records that identified him as a member of a drug trafficking ring that used prostitutes to transport them around Europe. Not much is known about his partner, Irma Veruari, but it is confirmed that the detainee is Genti Krasniqi, 62 years old.

"His trip to Tunja happened because his passport had just expired and he believed that in a small town he would not receive an Interpol red notice," a judicial source told EL TIEMPO.

And his activities in Colombia are being investigated, which are suspected to be related to drug trafficking. In fact, there is also an investigation into who protected him in Colombia and how he managed to enter the country. Genti Krasniqi is being held in custody, awaiting an extradition request from Milan.

His capture confirms that 250,000 hectares of cocaine have made Colombia the epicenter of international drug trafficking.



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