For over 10 years, intelligence officers from at least four countries have been searching for the leader of an Albanian organization engaged in the resale of cocaine. Heroin and other drugs in the Lyon region of France.
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Europol and Interpol intelligence officers assure that this man decided to move to Colombia in 2021. Alliances with cartels operating in the country. He mined a mine in a popular Santa Marta neighborhood and remained there undetected for two years, but a series of photographs sent to the women was key to locating it.
This Albanian citizen Besnik Xhurxhi Nikolli, nicknamed Niko or “el Gordo”, is wanted by France in a red Interpol circular drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
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aka Nico, According to intelligence studies, he had links to drug trafficking structures in Albania, the Netherlands and Germany. He was their partner in Europe and was in charge of buying the drugs.
EL TIEMPO investigated and your Albanian boss He was caught after French intelligence agents attacked his weakest point, women.
“Researchers trapped him on the Internet a woman and she fell. ‘It was about a secret agent who gained Niko’s trust and added him to social networks.a forensic source told this newspaper.
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Albanian according to the authorities He rarely left his home in his modest third-tier apartment in Santa Marta’s San Pablo neighborhood. He held parties with the women recruited here.
“He told the ladies that he lives in Bogotá and only goes to the beach for a walk.“, a legitimate source assured.
After a while, he started sending the leaked agent photos of his quirks, travels, and assets. “One of these images had geolocation in its metadata. From that moment began the task of finding the exact location for his capture.‘ said the researcher.
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Also the neighbors started telling the authorities that they found the extravagant and secluded lifestyle of the foreigner quite suspicious.
EL TIEMPO has accessed six photos, which show the Albanian posing in front of state-of-the-art vehicles on farms in Europe. and even at a bar in Santa Marta.
In fact, this last photograph was the one that made it possible to geo-locate the stranger’s location. “We knew it was only in Colombia since it entered via Bogota, but it didn’t show up on the record. France insists ‘Niko’ is in country“.
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Capture An overseas operation occurred in Santa Marta (Magdalena) last weekend, following an operation led by Dijín’s director, Brigadier General José Luis Ramírez Hinestroza. With the support of the French Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian Aerospace Forces.
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