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Bekim Halilaj is the majority shareholder and president of Albanian football club Luftëtari.


Early life

Halilaj was convicted of fraud in
Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the ...
in 1996 and was sentenced to five years in prison, but he did not serve any prison time as he moved to Greece shortly after the conviction. He settled in
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
where he lived for over a decade before his sentence was pardoned and he was able to return to Albania.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Halilaj, Bekim Living people 20th-century Albanian people 21st-century Albanian people Albanian businesspeople Year of birth missing (living people)