One of the criminals most wanted from Europe had been hiding in Madrid for months. He is the dangerous 59-year-old Albanian drug trafficker, accused of having led, with his family and friends, a gang based in Belgium that was dedicated to the cultivation and trafficking of cannabis with which they amassed a fortune of more than four million eurosThe detainee was number 22 on Europol’s list of Europe’s 50 most wanted fugitives, “Europe’s Most Wanted Fugitives”, which lists the continent’s most wanted fugitives.
Investigations to trace him began in January 2023, due to suspicions that he might be Spain. In our country, the fugitive took numerous security measures to avoid being located and hid different vehicles in which he traveled, as well as several houses where he spent the night intermittently. He also regularly changed his mobile phone. However, he was located last Thursday as he headed towards a van that had gone looking for him near one of his hiding places.
THE National Police Haredin Fejzulla was arrested under a European arrest and surrender warrant issued by the Belgian authorities, where he was sentenced to more than 29 years in prison for thirteen offences of drug trafficking, membership in a criminal organisation and falsification of documents committed between 2014 and 2018.
His gang had a clearly defined structure, at the lowest level of which were the gardeners and cleaning staff in charge of the plantations of cannabisAbove that were the fundraisers, the logistics managers – renting accommodation or providing vehicles – and the executives, who coordinated all the activity.
To carry out these activities, they used false documents to register electricity contracts and rent houses where they carried out massive crops and recruited people in an irregular situation in the country.
He fled Belgium after his conviction
The investigation by the Belgian authorities against the Haredin Fejzulla gang resulted in the dismantling of more than thirteen cannabis plantations and their arrest. But after being sentenced to more than 29 years in prison, he managed to escape and Belgium had already issued three European arrest warrants against him.
After his arrest, the police handed the detainee over to the Central Investigation Court of the National Court, which must decide whether he should be extradited to Belgium.
