- Princ Dobroshi
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Princ Dobroshi (Serbo-Croat: Princ Dobroši) (born 2 April 1964 in Peć, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia).
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. As a new place of living he picked up the Czech Republic and soon dominated over local Albanian drug mafias. On 23 February 1999 he was arrested in Prague.
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 2005.[1] Then he returned into the Czech Republic (where his Russian wife and two children live) and stayed there for three months, until his visa expired. Later, he returned to Peć, Kosovo.
He has admitted friendship with Arfan Qaeder Bhatti[2] who was arrested in Norway on charges of planning to terrorize Israeli and American embassies in Oslo, Norway.[3]
2006 Investigations
Investigation of terror suspects in Norway in September 2006 discovered contacts between one of the suspects and Princ Dobroshi (they had met in Pristina in 2005). MF Dnes, a newspaper in the Czech Republic, speculated about possibility of Dobroshi taking revenge and organizing a terror attack in Prague.[4] Day after, in an interview, Dobroshi acknowledged he knew the person but denied any involvement and plans.[5]
References
External links
- Details about his arrest in Prague (in Czech, material of Ministry of Interior)
- Overview of Dobroshi's activities (scroll to section 3)
Categories:- 1964 births
- Living people
- People from Peć
- Albanian mobsters
- Kosovar criminals
- Mob bosses
- Albanian escapees
- Escapees from Norwegian detention
- Albanian drug traffickers
- Albanian expatriates in Norway
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