U.S. and Albanian Law Enforcement Agencies Collaborate to Capture Albanian Fugitive (April 15, 2008)

Criminal Investigators from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. State Department returned Albanian fugitive and former Albanian State Police Officer Lorenc Balliu to Tirana.  Such action could not have been made possible without the assistance of INTERPOL Tirana. 

In 2003 an Albanian Court convicted former police officer Balliu of murder. The court established that on January 3, 2003 Balliu took part in the physical beating of an individual during a police interrogation. The victim subsequently died because of the injuries sustained.  Balliu will serve a 16-year imprisonment sentence.