Safet Bajri, the 38-year-old who was sentenced to 22 years in prison in Belgium, was released after 6 years of imprisonment in Albania. Bajri was considered the most wanted 'gangster' in Belgium, as he was accused of drug dealing and exploitation of prostitution.
He was forced to serve his sentence in Albania, because he was expelled from Brussels, the Belgian media criticized the decision by the Albanian side to release him without paying his debts.
We remember that after his release from prison, Atdhe Xharavina, an Albanian public figure shared some photos of the two on his TikTok channel last Friday from Shkodra.
The Belgian media write that Bajri caused a sensation in Belgium and that his name was on the list of the most wanted by the Federal Police.
The past of Bajri in Belgium
Safet Bajri or Safet Rustemi, as he was called in Belgium, was the head of a mafia clan that he ran with three brothers. Together they seized power in the Brussels underworld in 2014.
They are charged with exploitation of prostitution, theft and drug trafficking. It is also written that anyone who got in their way was executed, as in the case when two rival Albanians were killed. Bajri was arrested by the Brussels police and on January 25, 2017, where he was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
His disappearance
But in the summer of 2018, he disappeared again. "The Albanian government disappointed us", the Belgian media wrote, as it continued that "it took months for the Minister of Justice, Koen Geens, to send a copy of the Belgian decision to Albania in September 2018, allowing them to arrest Bajri."
Cooperation between the two countries
Both countries agreed that Bajri should serve his sentence in Albania. The Court of Fier ruled last month that Bajri has already served two-thirds of his nine-year sentence and is eligible for parole under Albanian law.
However, Bajri was punished much more severely. Bajri was sentenced twice in 2018 for cocaine trafficking, with 8 years and 5 years. " Has Belgium forgotten to report this to the Albanians? ", it is written in the article./ Nieuwsblad