Wanted for three murders, Sokol Hoxha arrested in the United States after 30 years on the run

He is accused of killing three people (the Banaj brothers) in March 1997 at Patos and a woman in August the same year.

As it says Top Channel, he has already been sentenced by the tribunal to 25 years in prison until Belgium also seeks to serve the sentence of Brunilda Dervis's murder.

After serving the double murder in his native country, Hoxha fled, first hiding in Greece and then moving to Belgium.

In addition to TCh, reports that following long-term investigations of the largest law enforcement agencies in Europe and not only, Sokol Hoxha's main activity in Belgium has been prostitution.

Even the killing committed in this country is closely linked to this also illegal activity.

Sokol Hoxha allegedly forged a marriage to Brunilda Hodza, but he used her for prostitution until he shot her dead in a bar in Brussels. It is alleged that the reason for this murder had been the victim's objection to convincing Hoxha in his attempt to exploit it.

According to the investigation, Hoxha was reportedly transferred to Great Britain after the murder in Belgium with counterfeit Kosovo documents, as many Albanians did in that period, taking advantage of the Kosovo war. Through these false documents he has managed to obtain residence permits in Britain.

But fear was still there that it could be discovered, and it doubled that it made the decision to move beyond the Atlantic, to the United States in the early 2000s. He began a new life, with a completely different identity, but again with the heavy burden of three victims in Albania and Belgium.

After more than two decades, Albanian investigative agencies received indiciety that Hoxha's whereabouts were in the US, as US, Belgian, British, Kosovar law enforcement agencies committed themselves to exchanging information on this person.

Albania's Ministry of Justice made the next move, making an extradition request to the US in 2019. In the same period, an Albanian named Sokol Hoxha was detained in Britain, but after verifications from Interpol, he was released after only a week, as it turned out to be another person, but with data similar to the fugitive.

In 2021 the US investigations intensified and focused on Albanian nationals who had migrated to the United States in the 2000s. Investing sent investigators to the real Sokol Hoxha, matching fingerprints and photographs of the time. It was fully confirmed that the stature with a false passport with new identity is Sokol Hoxha, sentenced to 25 years in prison in Albania and a life sentence of capital in Belgium.

It is learned that on May 5th in Ohio, the long-inhibited one has been arrested for nearly three decades, and American authorities are assessing further steps for the handover and evacuation of this fugitive to Albania or Belgium. Sokol Hoxha today is 51 years old.

A successful closure of a nearly 30-year investigation into this convict, who will now have to face the law. He will probably continue to try to exploit legal annexes because the crimes were committed long ago.