KOSOVO ALBANIAN SENTENCED TO 10

KOSOVO ALBANIAN SENTENCED TO 10.5 YEARS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
CTK National News Wire - November 27, 2003

PRAGUE, Nov 27 ; (HOL) - Kosovo Albanian Astrit Bityci was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for having smuggled ten kilos of heroin to Sweden from the Czech Republic and two kilos of heroin to Germany in 1999, by the Prague High Court today.

The high court thereby cancelled the original verdict of the Regional Court in Plzen, west Bohemia, which gave Bityci a two- year longer sentence.

At the same time, the Prague court cancelled the second part of the verdict passed by the low-level court, according to which Bityci, along with Macedonian Ismail Idrizi, smuggled seven kilogrammes of heroin from Prague via Germany to Denmark.

The Plzen Regional Court will have to deal with this part of the charges again.