Albanian mafia

These gangs, also known as "Mafia Shqiptare", have slowly take over the market in this country "after steadily moving into the country after the fall of communism in Albania in 1990."

The tabloid's interlocutors assessed that the Albanian mafia in this way "became perhaps the biggest player in an elaborate scheme of laundering money gained through crime - mostly drugs and arms trafficking."

Criminal gangs operating in Greece make more than an estimated 100 million euros annually from crime, with drug and migrant trafficking being the two major illegal activities recorded in the country, the Greek police said in its 2017 report on serious and organized crime.

Turkey and Afghanistan might strike a blow against drug traffickers by struggling together against a "human trafficking mafia," which are both actually part of the same group, according to a Kabul diplomat, who has also called on Iran to join the efforts. 

Attica police said on Wednesday that they have broken up a wide-reaching drug distribution network and made eight arrests.

The eight suspects - five Albanian nationals and three Greeks - were arrested in a police operation that spread across the city. Reports said the leader of the gang was a 35-year-old Albanian man.

Some 200 members of one of Italy’s most infamous mafia groups were arrested in an operation in Italy and Germany, police said on Jan. 9.

Istanbul police have detained 16 suspects in a broadened operation against a mafia organization accused of forcing people into prostitution, seizing the assets of the suspected gang members.

Disparaging statements made by US Ambassador to Albania Donald Lu about its Justice system have caused an uproar in the neighbouring country. During a speech on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Judges’ School. According to reports in the Albanian media, Mr.

Albert Veliu's day job was as an employee of Kosovo's Foreign Ministry, driving Kosovo Consul Teuta Sahaqija around the traffic-choked streets of New York.

Criminal Albanian gangs ready to resort to “serious violence” have “considerable control” over the drug trafficking market in the UK, a National Crime Agency (NCA) report has revealed.

The gangs, which use London as their primary hub but are established across the whole of the UK, have been found to have a particular influence on the cocaine market.