An Albanian man who was sentenced to prison in the UK for the criminal offense of rape is being sought by Kosovo on suspicion of armed robbery at a house seven years ago.
Rinor Korqa, 28, was sentenced in January 2024 by British authorities to five years and six months in prison for his role in the attack on a woman in the Havering neighborhood of London.
The victim was separated from her friends one evening during a party. She reported that one person raped her while another filmed her on a phone.
And as he wrote, "metro.co.uk”, Korqa now faces extradition to Kosovo to stand trial on suspicion of robbery on December 22, 2017. The British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been asked to rule on the case, which has been in the British courts for seven months.
Korqa is accused of committing a burglary in a house in Hajvali and stealing a wallet with 1500 euros, 50 dollars, an ID card, a lira, and a phone.
He was arrested in Britain on an arrest warrant issued by Kosovo. Kosovo has a treaty with the United Kingdom, the kind that requires it to provide evidence in support of an extradition request.
Korqa and Bujar Jashari were convicted in January last year. Korqa was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for rape and for not revealing the phone number, while Jashari was sentenced to seven years in prison for rape. The attack took place in June 2023.