Scheme involving Grosse Pointe CEO, cocaine submarine leads to prison
By Robert Snell
Published on March 31, 2026.
An Albanian drug kingpin, Ylli Didani, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for designing a cocaine-smuggling submarine with the Grosse Pointe Park CEO. The case involved over 4,000 kilograms of cocaine and several counts of money laundering.
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