There are many tragic stories of young Albanians who end up as a contingent of crime, either as consumers or distributors near the doors of schools, in the fields of cannabis, the back of the grass and then engaged in the most advanced part of the world of crime.
For about 30 years in the profession, journalist Artan Hoxha has covered thousands of stories in the media, but he singles out one of them. It is the event that shocked him the most. A young man from Vlora whose grave is not even known.
"The most specific cases in the world media that I see often is the case of Gramoz Rexhepi. Gramoz Rexhepi is a young man from the village of Vlora. He came to Tirana to complete his studies at the Faculty of Law. Practically when he was arrested for the first time near the hotel in Tirana. Accused together with another person in the area of Kruja.
He was a university student at the Faculty of Law. He was arrested, he escaped from prison, he was wanted, he was sentenced in absentia, he went to Italy, he was also wanted by Interpol. There was no other way of life. I start with trafficking from here while it was with cannabis. I got involved with cocaine traffickers, I was arrested in Italy for cocaine, I escaped from prison in Italy, then I go to Spain. I go to Belgium, he returned to Spain, he was arrested in Spain, he was extradited to Belgium, he escaped from prison in Belgium. He was one of the most wanted people in all of Europe and I ended up in Latin America with a passport, make no mistake, of another person. The passport was regular as a passport but the identity was forged.
He was captured in Ecuador in June 2016 and it took us 2 months to verify that the person who was captured was exactly Gramoz Rexhepi, the most wanted person in Europe. There are at least 6 countries that request his extradition from Ecuador. So in 2014, after he had done all his training, acquaintances, that is, after he had walked from prison to prison, and of course in prison he did not meet intellectuals, engineers, professors, but he met those "intellectuals of the world of crime", professors, engineers, i.e. the bosses of crime. He has created connections that he cannot create in one day and this has sealed his life and in Ecuador he was again arrested and went to prison with the most important characters of Ecuador.
He is already out of prison and has disappeared even in Ecuador there is no trace of him where he is but imagine the life of a young man at a very young age of 18, 19, 20 years old who comes from a village in Vlora to study in the Faculty of Law and how he ended up in the character whom the international media describes as the man who founded the first Albanian Cartel" , said Hoxha in the show "Vetting".