These are the people arrested by DEA, Kosovo Police

The US has published the names of persons arrested today by Kosovo Police co-operation with the US DEA.

According to the KP today, ten people were arrested in Kosovo and New York, all suspected of organised crime.

Among the persons arrested in the United States are:

Albert Veliu, 34,

Christopher Curanovic, 35-year-old

Anthony Noterile, 56-year-old

Gokaj Jevat, 50-year-old

Dilber Kukic, 45-year-old

Agim Rugova, 45,

Ekram Sejdija, 40-year-old

Alban Veliu, 32.

The people arrested in Kosovo are:

1. K. Born 1988 m/sh/k
2. D. Born 1987 m/sh/k
3. P. Born 1994 m/sh/k
4. M. Born 1989 m/sh/k

According to the announcement, Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be sent to the New York Federal Court on charges involving money laundering and narcotics trafficking, and they have also been confiscated by AK-47 weapons and an anti-tank.

First investigations have revealed that Christopher Curanovic, a member of “La Cosa Nostra” had tried to write off a debt from a former member of the criminal gang.

“Agents have managed to see that Veliu, Curanovic and Noterile, had developed an unleg scheme in which they made money laundering”, the US Department of Justice report said.

The investigation has shown that the suspects had managed to clear about 800 thousand dollars.

“Cranovic and Veliu had managed to mediate the sale of marijuana for a reliable source of American DEA. Veliu, one of the accused, had told him the source that he dealt with the distribution of firearms in Kosovo. Veliu had then used his connections to sell weapons”, the announcement said.

In the announcement, the seizure of weapons, ammunition and about 60 thousand euros “cash” in Kosovo, as Kosovo Police had said.

With our partnership with the forces agencies around the world, we will continue to target and break up criminal organisations”, American prosecutor Bridget Rohde has said that he has thanked DEA and Kosovo Police Special Units.