Der ermordete, ein Berufsverbrecher, welchselt den Namen in Albanien, was System ist be Drogen, Waffenhändlern des Kosovo
Sources indicate that until 2003, Nikulaj bore the surname Marku, while he later changed it and bore the surname by which he is still known today.
Die Daily Mail veröffentlicht Fotos des Autors vor Gericht: Saraiva erhielt 1 Million Pfund für die Hinrichtung des Geschäftsmanns Ardian Nikulaj.
Der Auftragsmörder, der den albanischen Geschäftsmann erschoss, erhielt laut britischen Medienberichten eine Million Pfund.
Die britische Boulevardzeitung Daily Mail hat Gerichtsfotos des Auftragsmörders des Geschäftsmanns Ardian Nikulaj, Ruben Saraiva, veröffentlicht, der vom Gericht in Lezha zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt wurde.
Laut britischen Medienberichten erhielt er für die Ausführung dieses Mordes eine Million Pfund.
Ruben Saraiva, der ab dem vierten Lebensjahr in Reading, Berkshire, aufwuchs, war als Lieferfahrer verkleidet, als er das Fünf-Sterne-Hotel in einem Badeort in Shengjiin betrat, das Ardian Nikulaj gehörte, und erschoss ihn sechsmal.
Der skrupellose Killer war zwei Monate vor dem Anschlag im April 2023 von London nach Albanien geflogen. Er war ein wichtiges Mitglied eines britischen Killerkommandos, zu dem Berichten zufolge auch eine junge Mutter aus Bristol gehörte, die für die Ausführung des Anschlags angeheuert worden war, behaupten die Staatsanwälte.
Unter strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen im Gericht von Lezha teilte Richter Lirim Bulica Saraiva mit, dass er den Rest seines Lebens in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis verbringen werde, nachdem er ihn des vorsätzlichen Mordes in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen und des illegalen Waffenbesitzes für schuldig befunden hatte.
In einem schwarzen Nike-Trainingsanzug und nur wenige Meter von der Ehefrau seines Opfers entfernt nickte Saraiva in der gläsernen Anklagebank, als das Urteil verkündet wurde.
Der Mord wurde angeblich von einem Mitglied einer rivalisierenden albanischen Familie in Auftrag gegeben, die jetzt in Großbritannien lebt und den Verdacht hegte, dass Nikulaj, ein Vater von vier Kindern, einen ihrer Verwandten im Rahmen einer „Blutfehde“ zwischen den Familien getötet hatte, die fast drei Jahrzehnte andauert und bereits neun Menschenleben gefordert hat.
Die Briten wurden für die Durchführung der Operation ausgewählt, weil Nikulaj zwar nach potenziellen einheimischen Attentätern Ausschau hielt, aber niemals eine Gefahr durch Besucher aus England vermutet hätte, behaupten die Staatsanwälte.
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A hitman raised in the Home Counties was jailed for life without parole on Thursday after gunning down an Albanian businessman in a £1million blood feud assassination suspected of being organised from the UK.
Ruben Saraiva, who grew up in Reading, Berkshire, from the age of four, was disguised as a delivery driver when he strolled into the five-star hotel in a Balkan seaside resort owned by Ardian Nikulaj and blasted him six times.
The ruthless killer had flown from London to Albania two months before the April 2023 attack as the key member of an alleged British hit squad – said to also include a young mother from Bristol – hired to carry out the operation, prosecutors allege.
Amid tight security at Lezhe Court in northern Albania, Senior Judge Lirim Bulica told Saraiva he would spend the rest of his life in a high security prison after finding him guilty of premeditated murder in collaboration with others and illegal possession of weapons.
Dressed in a black Nike tracksuit as he stood a few yards from his victim’s wife, Saraiva shook his head in the glass fronted dock as the judgement was delivered.
The murder was allegedly masterminded by the member of a rival Albanian family now based in the UK who suspected father-of-four Nikulaj of killing one of their relatives as part of ‚blood feud‘ between the families which has lasted nearly three decades and already claimed nine lives.
The Britons were selected to carry out the operation because, while Nikulaj was on the alert for potential local assassins, he would never have suspected any danger from visitors from England, prosecutors allege.
Saraiva laid in wait in a nearby stairwell of an apartment block for several days while the other Britons checked in to Nikulaj’s newly opened hotel in the seaside resort of Shengjin in northern Albania where they allegedly posed as tourists to spy on him and his family who also worked there.
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Ardian Nikulaj was sitting at a table when Ruben Saraiva strolled into a five-star hotel in a Balkan seaside resort
Saraiva (pictured inside a court in Lezha) who grew up in Reading from the age of four has been jailed for life
They are said to have accepted free meals from their unsuspecting victim, chatted with his wife and befriended his then 13-year-old-son as they tracked their target’s movements before one gave the signal for Saraiva to strike.
Horrific CCTV footage captured the moment the now 30-year-old gunman – dressed as a delivery driver wearing a hi-viz jacket, motorbike helmet and surgical mask – walks into the hotel’s bar and brandishes the Soviet made pistol before opening fire.
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Saraiva fled the murder scene on a motorbike and crossed the border on foot from Albania to Greece a few hours later, but was arrested after subsequently entering Morocco on fake documents and extradited to Albania to face trial.
It is not known how much Saraiva was offered for his role in the operation, but Nikulaj’s family said they had been warned previously that other potential local assassins had previously turned down almost £1million to kill him.
Saraiva was born to Portuguese parents who emigrated to the UK when he was aged four.
He split his time between his father’s home in Reading, Berkshire and his mother’s home in south London. He has convictions in the UK for drug dealing and knife crime.
Despite living most of his life in the UK, his parents never applied for citizenship so he remains a Portuguese citizen.
On February 14, 2023, he was collected from Tirana airport by British-Albanian Edmond Haxhia who is accused of organising the gang to target Nikulaj.
Haxhia, who lives in Birmingham, is the first cousin of two men from the Lekstakaj family which is embroiled in the long-running blood feud with the Nikulaj family, prosecutors told the court.
Under Albanian blood feud tradition, a family must avenge a relative’s murder by killing a male member of the killer’s family – who then have to do the same in return – in an ongoing cycle of bloodshed.
Saraiva had flown from London to Albania two months before gunning down Ardian Nikulaj (pictured) in April 2023
The murder was allegedly orchestrated by a member of a rival Albanian family, now based in the UK, who suspected Nikulaj of killing one of their relatives in a ‚blood feud‘
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Nikulaj is believed to have been targeted because he is accused of gunning down a Lekstakaj family member in 1997 – said to be as revenge for the murder of his elder brother after a row over a £15 petrol payment which began the feud. The Nikulaj family deny he was a killer.
Haxhia and the other Britons accused of being part of the surveillance team, Harriet Bridgeman, 28, Thomas Mithan, 35, and Steven Hunt, 50, who are all from Bristol, and Harry Simpson, 33, from south London, returned to the UK shortly before or immediately after the shooting, prosecutor Arben Nika told the court.
They were later arrested and are currently awaiting to hear the judgment in their appeal against extradition to Albania to face trial. They all deny involvement in the attack.
Execution of Ardian Nikulaj/ Wife and son for Daily Mail: We welcomed the murderer without knowing what he would do, we ate with the suspects
August 27, 2024 22:01
The wife of Ardian Nikulaj and his son have spoken for the first time after more than a year since his murder in Shengjin, Lezha. Vera Nikulaj, speaking for Daily Mail, said that the Nikulaj family has decided to speak only now, a few days before the decision to extradite the perpetrators of the businessman’s murder.
According to what he writes Daily Mail, Vera, with tears in her eyes and with great pain, said that her family hosted the group of British, who observed Ardian’s movements and helped the client Edmond Haxhia in his execution, in the hotel that had just been inaugurated. She says that they hosted the team that helped the killer, not knowing what their role was and that they even thanked her for the food.
Excerpt from the Daily Mail article:
A British gang suspected of a vendetta killing in Albania has lost a court battle against extradition. The gang – including a young mother – allegedly flew to the Balkan seaside resort of Shengjin and posed as tourists as they checked into a five-star hotel owned by their target Ardian Nikulaj.
There they accepted free food from their unsuspecting victim, chatted with his wife and played pool with his 13-year-old son while allegedly monitoring his movements before one gave the signal to shoot, the family of grieving the victim.
A fifth suspected gang member then entered the hotel restaurant and shot Nikulaj six times with a Soviet-made automatic pistol before fleeing. The gruesome CCTV footage captured the brutal killing last April and numerous previous visits to the hotel by Britons, where they were allegedly seen filming the interior of the hotel’s restaurant.
Harriet Bridgeman, 28, and Thomas Mithan, 35, both from Bristol, and Harry Simpson, 33, from South London, learned yesterday that their court battle to block extradition to face trial in Albania had failed, when they appeared at Westminster Magistrates‘ Court.
Ms Bridgeman wept as District Judge Daniel Sternberg told them he would send their cases to the Home Secretary for a final decision. The judge is also sending to the Home Secretary the case of British-Albanian Edmond Haxhia, from Birmingham, who is accused of organizing the gang to target Nikulaj as part of a ‚blood feud‘ between their families, which has lasted almost three decades and has already leading to seven murders.
Sturdumm führt eine Unterhaltung in der Gegend
Vollidioten es Kosovu
Absurde Idioten die Albaner und hier ist in Bulqize, eine kriminelle unfähige Albaner Frau Bürgermeisterin Festime Mjeshtri
Korruption
Der Entwurf des EP-Berichts zu Albanien bewertet den Fortschritt bei der Reform der „öffentlichen Verwaltung, einschließlich strategischer Planung und Koordination“. Der Bericht betont jedoch, „dass weitere Anstrengungen nötig sind, um leistungsbasierte Rekrutierung und die Entpolitisierung des öffentlichen Dienstes zu gewährleisten“
