Suspected narco boss arrested in Kosovo

Source: Beta, Tanjug

PRIŠTINA, SARAJEVO -- Naser Kelmendi was arrested in Kosovo on Sunday evening, the Kosovo police (KPS) confirmed on Monday.

Naser Kelmendi (image made from YouTube video)

KPS spokesman Baki Kelami told Beta news agency, "Yes, it's true. The Kosovo police arrested Kelmendi."
The minister of Security of Bosnia-Herzegovina said previously that his ministry unofficially received word of the arrest last night.

"The confirmation should be given by UNMIK and I hope we will have the confirmation today," Fahrudin Radončić told the public broadcaster of the Federation entity.

Radončić expects Kelmendi to be extradited to Bosnia, which issued an indictment against the ethnic Albanian as part of an operation aimed at breaking up crime gangs.

Kelmendi is also suspected of organizing the murder of Ramiz Delalić, aka Ćela, in Sarajevo in 2007.

Meanwhile, Podgorica's TV Vijesti is reporting that Kelmendi's name is on a U.S. State Department list, "as one of the most dangerous narco bosses in the Balkans", and that he has an Interpol arrest warrant out against him.

The information available to law enforcement services shows that Kelmendi is the main financier and organizer of the trafficking of heroin arriving in buses from Turkey and Albania to Peć in Kosovo. From there, he is suspected of moving the narcotics to western Europe, via Rožaje and Novi Pazar.