He was caught with 210 kg of cocaine in Piraeus, the past in Turkey of Jasona Merkuri, the Albanian drug 'boss', is revealed

Jasona Merkuri, the 54-year-old Albanian arrested by the Greek police as the head of a criminal group that had trafficked 210 kg of cocaine from Latin America in collaboration with the well-known Greek trafficker Ioannis Viglakis, has a criminal record in Turkey.

Specifically, under his other name, Andrea Merkuri, he was arrested in September 2009 in Fatih, Istanbul, with 10 kg of heroin and 3 kg of marijuana.
When he was arrested, he had been released from prison for selling drugs for 3 months.

Merkuri used Mimoza Zota's apartment in Fatih as a drug storage place.

The heroin captured during the operation that led to the arrest of 7 people, including a woman, was destined for Albania.

But the traffic with Turkey was not stopped by Merkur, since even in 2009 his brother-in-law was arrested with 22 kg of heroin in an attempt to traffic it to Greece.

Jasona Merkuri alias Andrea Merkuri alias Azdren Muharremi, wanted in Greece, sentenced to 20 years in prison as the head of a criminal group from which 634 thousand 246 tablets of the drug "Captagon", known as "Drugs" were seized in 2017 of Jihadists".