Ecstasy tablets with the 'Louis Vuitton' logo, Vocaj gives the details: The drugs were transported by Pristina-Tirana buses

2023-08-15 12:09:30Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ecstasy tablets with the 'Louis Vuitton' logo, Vocaj gives the
Mega anti-drug operation, hit the group that distributed ecstasy

The head of the Tirana Police Directorate, Tonin Vocaj, in a statement to the media, gave the details of the "Punisher" operation that imprisoned 5 people.

The arrested are: Mithat Ramadani, Besnik Mujeci, Kalem Picari, Ambra Myftari and Daniel Avdia.

Vocaj said that the police seized 11,300 ecstasy tablets weighing 5 kg and with a market value of around 400,000 euros coming from Kosovo via the Prishtina-Tirana passenger bus line.

The doses of the narcotic substance ecstasy and the tablets were with the logo of the brand 'Louis Vuitton'. The perpetrators distributed the drug on the country's beaches.

 

Full statement:

The Director of the Tirana Local Police Directorate, Chief Tonin Vocaj at the press conference regarding the successful completion after a months-long investigation of the coded police operation "PUNISHER 2". I am here today together with the Deputy Director for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Serious Crimes, the Deputy Director for Public Security and the head of the Narcotics Investigation Sector, to present the results of the coded operation "PUNISHER 2", within which a group that trafficked from Kosovo to Albania and distributed the narcotic ecstasy MDMA was hit. In January of this year, the coded police operation "PUNISHER" was finalized, in the framework of which a group of distributors of synthetic drugs was hit, 3 citizens were arrested and another was declared wanted, as well as 1007 MDMA ecstasy tablets were seized.

The Local Directorate of the Tirana Police, following successive operations developed for the prevention, identification and attack of criminal activity in the field of narcotics, following in-depth actions in the direction of the investigation of suppliers for the group arrested in January, have fallen into traces of a network that trafficked large quantities of synthetic drugs from Kosovo to Albania. After a several-month investigation with special investigation methods, by the Specialists of the Narcotics Investigation Sector at the Tirana Local Police Directorate, under the direction of the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Tirana, legal evidence was provided to document the criminal activity of this group that consisted of 5 people.

On the basis of the evidence obtained during the investigation, the coded police operation "PUNISHER 2" was organized and finalized, in which the citizens were arrested: Mithat Ramadani, 30 years old, Besnik Mujeci, 40 years old, both residents of Pristina, as well as Kalem Picari, 24 years old, Ambra Myftari, 28 years old, and Daniel Avdija, 26 years old, all three living in Tirana.

The arrested citizens were located at the intersection of "Myslym Shyri" and "Sami Frashëri" streets, along with the shipment of suspected narcotics, of 11,300 MDMA ecstasy tablets, weighing 5,093 kg and with a market value of around 400,000 euros.

The investigations showed that these citizens, taking advantage of the flow of the tourist season, passed the shipments through the Pristina-Tirana bus lines. Once the consignments arrived in Tirana, they were transported by rented cars to Tirana and other cities, mainly coastal ones, and exchange places were designated in public places with a lot of movement and flow of people. In order to reach agreements with the distributors of synthetic drugs in Albania, the traffickers demanded advance payments, or even leaving vehicles as a guarantee. MDMA ecstasy tablets, along with a quantity of cannabis narcotic substance, a vehicle, as well as 5 mobile devices, were seized as material evidence.

The Local Directorate of the Tirana Police remains maximally engaged to prevent and fight criminal activity in the field of cultivation, production and distribution of light and hard drugs. I would like to publicly thank the head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Judicial District of the General Jurisdiction Tirana Mr. Arenc Çela and the prosecutor of the case Mr. Ndini Tavani, for conducting this investigation with professionalism and determination. We assure the citizens that the Police structures operating in the region of Tirana and recently in the territory of the Kruja Municipality are continuing with dedication the continuous fight against any illegality and in this context we invite the citizens to cooperate even more with the police structures with the aim of creating an even safer environment for citizens, visitors and tourists,


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