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On the run for 19 years, how the tattoo betrayed the 52-year-old Albanian in Italy. He will serve 10 years in prison, what he was sentenced for (NAME)

2025-09-04 21:17:33Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
On the run for 19 years, how the tattoo betrayed the 52-year-old Albanian in
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What betrayed him, after 19 years on the run, was a tattoo of a half-naked woman on his right forearm, which the carabinieri still remembered despite the passage of time.

A 52-year-old Albanian man, Durim Lusha, was arrested while having a drink at a gas station bar on the outskirts of Taviano in Italy. As a precaution to avoid arrest (he was wanted across Europe), he had changed only his first name on his passport: from Durim, to Elidon, Italian media report.

Lusha is now in a cell in Borgo San Nicola, a prison on the outskirts of Lecce, where he will serve a 10-year prison sentence that became final in April 2006 following a ruling by the Court of Appeal. Since that day, the man had disappeared to escape the arrest warrant.

Untraceable, despite his name being listed in law enforcement databases across Europe, Lusha was arrested as part of an investigation conducted by the Salento prosecutor's office between the late 1990s and early 2000s, which allowed investigators to dismantle an Italian-Albanian group that recruited young girls, mainly from Albania, to be trafficked into prostitution.

And a series of charges weigh heavily on him: criminal conspiracy with the aggravating circumstance of serving as a principal promoter, incitement and exploitation of prostitution and slavery. Investigations are ongoing to uncover the network of supporters who allowed the 52-year-old to remain hidden for so long.

“I live in Milan,” he reportedly told officers, showing them his passport. A quick check of police systems confirmed the false identity. Thus ended a nearly 20-year period of hiding for the 52-year-old, sitting in a bar.


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