He killed his sister and brother-in-law/ The much-wanted Albanian is arrested in Italy

2024-04-03 11:37:00, Aktualitet CNA

He killed his sister and brother-in-law/ The much-wanted Albanian is arrested in

Gjovalin Lesi

The police have arrested 55-year-old Gjovalin Lesi, who is sentenced to life imprisonment for double murder.

Lesi has been arrested in Italy and is expected to be extradited to Albania. In 1997, Lesi killed his brother-in-law and sister in Rubik, after a conflict for weak motives.

Police notification:

Sentenced to life imprisonment for double murder, a 55-year-old man was arrested and imprisoned, as part of the international police operation coded "Verdict".

The operation, the result of information provided by the Department of Criminal Police in the State Police and exchanged with the Police of Matera, Italy, with the coordination of the Office of the Italian Interforce, the Office of Italian Security Experts, in Albania, and the Service for International Police Cooperation - 2nd Division, Rome.

The prisoner in Matera, in 1997, in Rubik, killed his brother-in-law and sister with a Kalashnikov, after a conflict for weak motives.

Following the international operations, finalized as a result of very good cooperation with partners, with the objective of locating, arresting and extraditing the nationals declared internationally wanted, in Matera, Italy, as a result of the immediate exchange of information provided by the Department of the Criminal Police in the DPPSH, with the Matera Police, exchange carried out with the coordination of the Italian Interforce Office, the Office of Italian Security Experts, in Albania, and the Service for International Police Cooperation - 2nd Division, Rome, the operation was finalized coded police "Verdict".

During this operation, the internationally wanted citizen Gjovalin Lesi, 55 years old, born in Rubik, was located and arrested for the purpose of extradition to Albania.

The court of Mirdita, in 1998, sentenced the citizen Gjovalin Lesi, to life imprisonment, for the criminal offenses "Premeditated murder" and "Illegal possession and production of weapons, explosive weapons and ammunition". On 21.10.1997, in Rubik, after a conflict for weak motives, he killed Kalashnikov firearms, his brother-in-law and his sister, namely citizens A. Gj. and M. Gj..

Cooperation continues to carry out the extradition of the 55-year-old to Albania./CNA