Rexhep Rraja, the son of former SP MP Rrahman Rraja, turns out to be involved in a drug trafficking network that was hit a few days ago by SPAK. Together with several other members of the group, including his cousins and uncle, Rexhep Rraja turns out to have trafficked marijuana from Albania to Turkey. It concerns a quantity of 236 kg of marijuana, which was discovered and seized by the police in Kapikule, Turkey on January 26, 2021.
The data against the criminal group are communications received from the encrypted application Sky EÇ. Rexhep Rraja turns out to have carried the codes “XR1” and “New Sky”.
In this episode, SPAK says that there are reasonable suspicions that the suspects Rexhep Rraja, Përparim Rraja, Gazmir Rraja, Aldo Gjini alias Iamandi Sokol Qaja, Marvin Bushati, Bujar Sefa alias Xaka, Agim Nina alias Lorenc Selmani and Jani Cavo have committed the criminal offense of drug trafficking, committed in collaboration in the special form of collaboration, that of a structured criminal group.
Communications between the suspects have been revealed in the SPAK file. Gazmir Rraja informs Përparim Rraja that the driver had been caught: "The road has fallen. The driver called his wife on the phone, told her they had caught her," writes Gazmir Rraja. "That's what Xheni told me," Përparimi replies. "Stay safe," adds Gazmir.
SPAK says that one of the main orderers of the narcotics shipment is Rexhep Rraja.
Gazmir Rraja communicates with Rexhep Rraja and asks him if the news of the truck driver's arrest and the seizure of drugs had come out: "Did the news come out? Was he caught or not?", he writes. Rexhepi replies: "There's a thief, he saw the truck there in the park, we don't know anything yet."
The suspects also talk about the way the narcotics were packaged, in order to avoid being confused with the packages of other accomplices. The packages had to be clearly marked.
The suspect Aldo Gjini was tasked with making the distinctive marks: "Rois is closing his own bags. He bought his own bags and is closing them," writes one of the group members.
"Where will we meet to put the other signs?" writes suspect Jani Cavo. "Talk to Teo and you're in Brazil," replies another member.
Cavo orders one of the members regarding the way the drugs are packaged: "I'm having arguments here, I've had enough with you. Where are they going to come and see their own goods and put the marks on them? My friends say: we've sealed all the boxes with aluminum bags in Teo's sight. Don't make any moves without them coming to see the goods and confirming that it's theirs and putting the marks on them, otherwise it's all your responsibility."
He sent a message to Rexhep Rraja, who claims that "it's just a sign of how it was done."
Rexhep Rraja then communicates with an unidentified person from SPAK: "I will prove to you that I am filling the box, but I will not give you any details," he writes to Rexhep Rraja. The latter tells him: "I do not listen to idle talk, old man. Enough for last night or today, I will give you details. And you must have details if you have any questions."
Rraja writes to his interlocutor that he has lost the bet: "Why are yours special? How are they special? What does it mean? I was there with the truck, you saw it. You said Serbian truck, Albanian truck. But did you bring goods, tell me the details because you know," Rraja insists.
After this conversation, Rexhep Rraja writes to Aldo Gjini that "someone is writing to me who has been spying on Turkey. If you don't know about the wiretapping, brother, they'll turn us off."
Despite efforts to deliver the drugs to their destination, the criminal group failed to arrive, as the quantity of drugs was seized and the driver was arrested and found to have been convicted by Turkish justice. Rexhep Rraja and some of the other members of the group were handcuffed a few days ago in Tirana. They are also accused of two other trafficking episodes, one of which involved cocaine.
