G. B, the 26-year-old Albanian who triggered police prosecution during which Italian police officer Francesco Imprezabil lost his life, has returned to the centre of Italian media attention.
His name is also mentioned in a major investigation into international cocaine trafficking and the cleaning of millions of euros through the purchase of gold lignites.
According to the Italian newspaper Quodiano NazionalThe young man has allegedly been involved in an international money laundering scheme, where income from traffic of about 240kg of cocaine has been converted into gold lingotas, worth at least 14m euros, to be transferred to Albania later.
The investigation, code-named Caveau 3850, was conducted by the Directorate of Antimafia in Milan and Guardia di Finanza in Lecco.
In the investigative documents, his name and that of some of his family is mentioned as part of persons suspected of accepting illegal incomes from the activity of drug trafficking.
According to the investigative file, money was laundered through Italian companies that did the processing and marketing of precious metals.
One of them had headquarters in Milan and Alessandria, while another company was allegedly used for investments in real estate. Under the investigation, 52 people under investigation have been identified and two companies seized.
The Italian newspaper also publishes details from coded communications allegedly used to coordinate transactions.
In a discussion of December 29, 2020, when he was 20, the young man discussed sending hundreds of thousands of euros from Germany to Spain.
In one of his messages, he wrote: Send money to Alicante, referring to a sum that, according to investigators, totaled 366,650 euros.
In another case, on November 25, 2021, a family member of his, who allegedly had delivered 367,300 euros to a company in Alessandria.
Two days later, according to the investigation, he had obtained 7.2kg of gold, which had been hidden in a special space of a Mercedes car traveling to Albania.
In addition to the money laundering investigation, Genti Berisha is at the centre of another serious issue related to the death of local police officer Francesco Imprezabil.
The event took place on June 22, 2026, when the 26-year-old, running an Audi Q8 lease, disobeyed the police’s order to stop in Milan. This triggered a high-speed chase, during which 39-year-old Imprezable police lost control of the motorcycle and crashed to death.
During the interrogation, Berisha had declared that he had left the police because of several grams of hashish and that he had wrongly assessed the situation. He had expressed regret over the death of the policeman and had apologized to his family, saying that he was willing to pay back his family.
Meanwhile, the prosecution is also considering his request for an agreement on the sentence regarding the police’s death case, with the upcoming session scheduled for November 25th.
The young man was sentenced to eight years in prison in a cut procedure under another drug trafficking investigation conducted by the Directorate of Antimafia in Brescia.
In July, he had returned to prison after the weight of the security measure, while in October he was again in house arrest.
Italian investigators are investigating whether his flight from police on the night he lost Imprezable life was linked only to fear of discovering a small amount of hashish or even to the wider activity of international drug trafficking.
So far, this link remains a suspect of investigators and has not been proven./Telegraphy/