The animal skin cocaine trafficking group from the Dominican Republic may have extracted drugs in laboratories on behalf of other criminal groups as well. Who is the Colombian arrested by SPAK (Special Prosecutors’ Office), with the nickname “Gafas”, who is also wanted in his hometown by the authorities?

The Colombian arrested by SPAK as part of the group that trafficked cocaine through animal skins from the Dominican Republic, had been in Albania for 1 year. Furthermore, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has discovered that Hiëlenn Ledezma Narvaez, also known by the nickname “Gafas”, is wanted by the Colombian authorities as the leader of a criminal cocaine trafficking group. He had escaped the police operation “Pacifico”, in November 2023, where the Albanian citizen Klodian Zaimi was also arrested in Colombia, who turns out to be the son of Artjon Çaushllari’s uncle, arrested by SPAK 3 weeks ago as one of the financiers of attempted trafficking.

For animal skins in the Dominican Republic, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has documented that 40 thousand US dollars were paid, while the travel and stay in this country of the other arrested Aldi Zonja was documented. From several months of observation in the field, SPAK has raised suspicions that this group may have helped other groups to extract cocaine in other areas of the country, in improvised laboratories.

In one case in May of this year, the Colombian “Gafas” stayed for several hours in a villa in a village of Pogradec, accompanied by Artjon Çaushllari and Klajdi Birçe, both arrested, where they are suspected of having produced a quantity of cocaine. In this case, the agents did not intervene as the operation could be debunked.