Princ Dobroshi
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Princ Dobroshi (born 1964) was a head of Albanian drug gang in Kosovo.
Dobroshi had controlled the northern path of the "Balkans route" (Turkey-Balkans-Czech Republic-Nordic countries) of heroin trade and was infamous for his brutality. In 1993 he was caught in Norway and in 1994 sentenced to 14 years in prison for heroin trafficking (other charges were pending in Sweden and Denmark). In a well coordinated operation he escaped from the Ullersmo Prison in 1997, travelled to Croatia and underwent plastic surgery of face. As a new place of living he picked up the Czech Republic and soon dominated over local Albanian drug mafias. On February 23, 1999 he was arrested in Prague. In his flat police secured weapons, money and documents showing that Dobroshi has been buying rocket systems and infantry weapons on behalf of UÇK (KLA). Over forty people were arrested all over Europe in follow-up operation.
The criminal underground had planned armed attack on the Pankrác Prison but in August 1999 Dobroshi was extradited to Norway to complete his sentence. He was paroled and deported for "good behavior" in January of 2005 [1]. Then he returned into the Czech Republic (where his wife and two children live) and stayed there for three months, until his visa expired. Later, he returned to Kosovo.
[edit] 2006 Investigations
Investigation of terror suspects in Norway in September 2006 discovered contacts between one of the suspects and Dobroshi (they had met in Priština in 2005). MF Dnes, a newspaper in the Czech Republic, speculated about possibility of Dobroshi taking revenge and organizing a terror attack in Prague. [2] Day after, in an interview, Dobroshi acknowledged he knew the person but denied any involvement and plans [3].
[edit] External links
- Details about his arrest in Prague (in Czech, material of Ministry of Interior)
- Overview of Dobroshi's activities (scroll to section 3)
