Albania: Former Gentian Bey Penitentiary Officer, assassination saga and underworld links

The event has reacted with a brief announcement by state police, suggesting that a special investigative group was established under the prosecutor's direction working to clarify the circumstances of the incident, identify and apprehend the suspected authors.

“On the 15/03.24, in the village of Larushhk, Kruje, of still unidentified persons has been killed by firearms citizen G. B.”, let the police know.
This is the fourth assassination to Baytia. We remember that on July 4, 2023, Batia escaped bullets, but his brother-in-law, his wife's brother. Ramadan Sino lost his life. While Beytia's two children, 13 and 8 years of age, were wounded.

January 9, 2022 Gentian Beytya, former prison police officer, survived a Kalashnikov assassination near Nikla in Fushe-Kruya, but his 31-year-old friend Klodian Stafuka, who was with him in the car during the moment he stopped to supply the car at a gas station.

Another attack took place in September 2016, with a tritol. Action was traveling with his car “Tuareg”, to the village of Nykel, Kruja, when explosives that seriously damaged him on foot exploded from below.

Known as the former friend of Durim Bami, a high-risk social person, 42-year-old Gentian Baytja has been suspected of a series of events in the Fushe-Cruja area, but not only.

The 42-year-old was mentioned a lot as the person suspected, along with Enver Stafuka, had stolen the car with which the assassination of Chief Commissioner Dritan Lamajt was carried out February 24, 2013. But by court ruling Bethja and Stafuka were acquitted on November 13th 2013, after it was assessed that there was not enough evidence for their conviction for the theft charge in co-operation.
Gentian Baytija has also been accompanied by two assassinations of Ilias Cal on the Tirana-Durra highway in April 2022 and the assassination of Marklen Haka in June last year, but no evidence was found to blame him as suspected author.