24 minutes ago3 Kosovar arms traffickers charged with links to Cosa Nostra
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)In a joint arrest operation between The American DEA and the Kosovo Police last year suffered 12 people, all suspected of organised crime. Today, the Special Prosecutor has filed charges against three of them for gun trafficking. These three allegedly had contact with Albert Veliun, who [...]
Eight people were arrested last year by DEA in New York and four people were arrested in Kosovo by Kosovo Police. Today, on Tuesday, February 06th 2018, the Kosovo Special Prosecutor has filed charges against three men for arms trafficking.
A.K. (30-year-old), M.D. (31-year-old), D.P. (24-year-old), there are people whom the Special Prosecutor filed charges of criminal trafficking with weapons.
These three, according to the prosecution, have acted as a criminal group at the helm with Albert Veliun. Criminal proceedings are under way in the United States. Veliu is suspected of selling an undercover agent an AK-47 and a <x0->s rocket launcher”. But who is Albert Veliu?
Albert Veliu's daily task was as a Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs employee to drive Kosovo General Consulate Teuta Sahaqi into New York traffic.
“ ... During April and May 2017 on US territory, the US police agent from DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), under cover, has linked the agreement to A.V., to the purchase of 15 pieces of automatic weapons as if for fighting narcotics and cartels in Mexico and has given the money to defendant A. V.”, says the prosecution's announcement.
The prosecution claims that, through the defendants, the handover of weapons has been organised in Kosovo, so those mentioned by initials have handed down their weapons to the Kosovo Police Officer under cover, which has been implementing the secret measures of simulated purchase.
A US Justice Department report issued last June says Albert Veliu and Anthony Noterile will be sent to the New York Federal Court of Brooklyn on charges involving money laundering and narcotics trafficking. The same ones, from DEA, were confiscated from AK-47 weapons and an anti-tank.
The people who were arrested in the U.S. and related were: Albert Veliu, 34, Christoher Curanovic, 35-year-old, Anthony Noterile, 56-year-old, Jedvat Gocaj, 50-year-old Dilber Kukic, 45-year-old Agim Rugova, 45-year-old Ekram Sejija, 40-year-old, Alban Veliu, 32-year-old, writes Express newspaper.
On June 27, 2017, with a co-ordinated action between the Kosovo police and the US prosecution, all defendants have been arrested inflict, in the territories of both states.
Those arrested in Kosovo were: A. K. Born 1988, M. D. Born 1987, D. P. Born 1994, D. M. Born 1989.
The first investigations by DEA say they have found that Christopher Curanovic, a member of “Cosa Nostra” had tried to write off a debt from a former member of the criminal gang.
“Agents have come to see that Veliu, Curanovic and Noterile, had devised unlegal schemes in which they made money laundering”, the US Department of Justice announced.
The investigation has shown that the suspects had managed to clear about 800 thousand dollars. /GazetaExpress/
