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INVESTIGATION/ Who released Dritan Rexhepin from prison, the "Albanian king of cocaine" of cocaine was released for good behavior

2022-11-11 09:20:14Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
INVESTIGATION/ Who released Dritan Rexhepin from prison, the "Albanian king
In the photo: Dritan Rexhepi

Journalists in Ecuador have raced to find and interview Dritan Rexhepi, who they call the " Albanian king of cocaine ". Journalist Yalile Loaiza has dedicated a long article to Rexhepi from Vlonja after his release from prison.

Dritan Rexhepi, the Albanian criminal who organized a sophisticated structure for sending cocaine from Ecuador to Europe, accepted parole, known as a semi-open regime, in November 2021. This right, which was denied to him in cases of previous, forces him to stay in Ecuador until June 26, 2027, when his sentence for drug trafficking ends, but serving his sentence in prison.

Rexhepi, who is also known by the names Lulëzim Murataj or Edmir Kraja, must appear every 15 days before the social reintegration unit in Guayaquil.

He is also prohibited from leaving the country and repeating other crimes. According to the file, if Rexhepi does not respect the provisions of the court, he would be declared a fugitive.

According to Balkan Insight, Rexhepi, known as "the king of cocaine", is the leader of a transnational criminal federation of Albanian drug traffickers that has trafficked cocaine worth hundreds of millions of euros from South America to Europe.

Rexhepi's trafficking, which began in 2014 during the government of Rafael Correa and continued during the terms of Lenín Moreno and Guillermo Lasso, continued while in prison as he carried a mobile phone, although authorities denied that he had equipment. in his cell.

Various Italian court documents identified the 42-year-old as the "undisputed kingpin" with access to "endless amounts of cocaine" from the Bello Company, a cartel made up of 14 Albanian criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking and which, according to the authorities, it has been operating since 2014 in Ecuador, the Netherlands, Belgium, Albania and Italy, according to an article published in November 2021 by The Wall Street Journal.

Rexhepi was arrested in 2014 in Ecuador and sentenced in 2015 to 13 years in prison for drug trafficking. He was held in a prison in Guayaquil and then in Latacunga prison, 100 kilometers from Quito. Infobae unofficially learned that Rexhepi kept in contact with the country's authorities until January 15 of this year, but then disappeared.

This media requested information from the Provincial Court of Guayas regarding the observance of the measures provided by Rexhepi in the semi-open regime of his case, but there was no response.

Likewise, Infobae contacted the public defender who conducted the pre-release process of Rexhepi, but the lawyer assured that he does not remember the details of the case and that he cannot report whether the Albanian capo has continued to respect the provisions of the judicial bodies.

According to the process, Rexhepi was favored with the semi-open regime after having served at least two-fifths of the sentence. Also, on November 4, 2021, it is mentioned that the Albanian capo "has a very good behavior", in addition to this, he does not record escape attempts, and also has a work report.

According to information from the Judicial Function, Rexhepi assured that he would live in an apartment in the Central Park of Samborondón, 14 kilometers from Guayaquil. In this private housing complex, an apartment of 125 m2 can cost from 165,000 USD.

However, as stated in the report, on February 10, 2022, Rexhepi was authorized to change his address, but the new address is not recorded. This is not the first time that Dritan Rexhepi tries to get out of prison. On December 23, 2020, a judge denied the request for the release of the Albanian capo.

At that time, Rexhepi's lawyer was Harrison Salcedo, who was shot in April of this year in Quito. Salcedo was also a protégé of former Vice President Jorge Glas and José Luis Zambrano, alias Rasquiña, who was the leader of Los Choneros until he was killed in December 2020 in a shopping mall in Ecuador.

Rexhepi is wanted by the justice system in Albania, Belgium and Italy for many crimes. Two requests for extradition weigh on him, from Albania and Italy. The National Court of Ecuador decided that the Albanian will be extradited to his country of origin as soon as he completes his sentence in Ecuador.

Lawyer Pablo Encalada explained to Infobae that the Albanian capo benefited from the preliminary release because "there is no obstacle". Encalada added that this "is not right, but it is legally what he was entitled to".

Asked about the possibility that Rexhepi escaped, Encalada assured that in this case Ecuador "would have failed him", as the country promised to extradite the Albanian when he completes his sentence in the country./ Infobae

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