For years, the drug lords were in Albania as untouchable. Your connection to policy was tight, it was dangerous to pursue them. That could change now.
The tension was great: The Albanian interior Minister, Fatmir Xhafaj had recommended to the journalists before the big announcement, their phones do not turn off. Earlier this week, the success message came In a large-scale Operation in 12 cities managed by the Albanian police to smash a drug ring with Connections in the policy. According to a Tweet by the interior Minister, the Operation lasted three days, and 1,500 policemen took part in it. 27 people, including three police officers, were arrested, 100 homes have been searched and 182,5 kg of Opium seized. It was the largest Operation of this kind in Albania: a Total of four drugs were smashed gangs that, together, acted and everything organised, from the production of the drugs, to smuggling and money laundering. Six Suspects are still sought.
Connections to high ranking politicians
The Albanian Prosecutor for serious crimes (a section of the Albanian public Prosecutor’s office) introduced a month earlier, a criminal complaint and initiated the explosive Material to the police: thousands of hours of monitored telephone conversations, video recordings, covert investigations on the spot, consumption of drones, thousands of pages of correspondence between the different institutions in and outside of Albania. In the centre of the investigation, a meth lab was in the North Albanian site Has been mainly used for the manufacture of Heroin. From there, the drugs were gangs with the help of three other Albanian drugs in the EU smuggled.
For the purpose of money, plots of land were Laundry in the popular tourist areas of Albania purchased. The Prosecutor’s office, according to the should be with the help of high-ranking politicians to happen. Also a former Deputy of the ruling Socialist party (PS), has been arrested in this connection Ndoka Arben.
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According to the investigative journalists, Artan Hoxha Ndoka, his political Power used to fake certificates and dubious methods to come out on public land. These are of fictitious owners, it was only on the paper, cheap “bought” and after that duty has been sold. Twelve administrative officials and local politicians, who had been bribed for that purpose, were arrested in March because of the “theft of 235,000 square meters of public land” in the Albanian Adriatic sea-Region of Lezha. Politically, some of them were assigned to the ruling PS, and others of the opposition Democratic party or of the Socialist League for Integration (LSI).
The former Director-General of the prisons Çuko Connections to the Shijaku be Arben-group-accused – one of the four gangs, which have now been smashed by the police. According to the investigation of the former Deputy of the Socialist party is to get money and a car to put a murder inhaftiertes a member of the group in another prison.
DGerman help in the fight against organised crime
So far, politicians and state officials, which the Affairs entanglements in corruption or even drug smuggling were said, in Albania as insurmountable. According to the annual report of the United Nations office for drugs and crime (UNODC) for 2017, the Albanian gangs on space 1 of the world’s Heroin and cannabis smuggling, and on place 3 of the global cocaine trade. However, the successful smashing of the drug ring by the Albanian police, and the arrests this week, awaken the hope that could change soon – and that even senior politicians will have to answer before the justice, if you are involved in the drug trade.
“This is not a Show, but a real fight against organized crime,” tweeted the Albanian interior Minister, Fatmir Xhafaj, after the large-scale operation of the police and announced that the operations should be continued. It is probably no coincidence that this large-scale Operation took place immediately after the visit of the President of the Federal police Dieter Romann in Tirana.
In February, the Albanian police seized 613 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Durrës. The in banana crates hidden contraband came from Colombia and had Germany as a destination. Three months later, the Bavarian police found 1.8 tons of cocaine in banana boxes hidden. After the arrests in Bavaria, the German police investigated even in Albania. Dieter Romann has promised to the Albanian authorities and in the exchange of information between the police authorities of the two countries to fight organised crime better.