A 22-year-old man has been handcuffed by the police in Mirdita, after he was wanted by Italian justice, as he is accused of being a member of a criminal group.
"In the wake of successive operations carried out to capture internationally wanted persons, based on police intelligence that these citizens are hiding by taking refuge in the territory of Lezhë district, the services of the Mirdita Police Station, the Narcotics Investigation Section at the Lezhë DVP as and in cooperation and coordination of work with the special unit for the capture of wanted citizens "FAST Albania", in the Directorate of the Special Operational Force in the State Police, have finalized the coded police operation "Hidden"
As a result, in an apartment in Rrëshen, they caught and provisionally arrested for the purpose of extradition, a 22-year-old GJ citizen, a resident of Mirdita, announced as an international wanted person after the Court of Preliminary Investigations in Milan, Italy, with a criminal decision dated 03.11.2023, has assigned to him the security measure of "imprisonment", accused of the criminal offenses "Criminal Organization" and "Trafficking of narcotic substances carried out in cooperation", provided by the articles of the Italian Criminal Code.
"Interpol Tirana is following the procedures for the extradition of this citizen to Italy," the police announced.