Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian gangs are pretty active in the Netherlands.

Yes I think this era of mobsters do, but a big part of them are born in Belgrade. There is one thing you have to know about people from Belgrade and Serbia aswell is that we are by origin 60-70 percent from Montenegro at one point. Of course Im talking about common folk not mobsters. I think Stax will agree

romanian gangs are weak generally speaking, even in romania are not so strong, aside a few gypsy clans
bulgarians are powerful in their country, but not so much in general, and gypsies anyway are strong even there
albanian and serbian oc are by far the strongest balkan criminal group (not only gypsies, in general)

Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian gangs are pretty active in the Netherlands.

I suppose this deserves a thread of its own , but how come one can read next to nothing about Hungarian organized crime in general ? It's as if they are virtual phantoms in spite of all the tales one can hear about them .

What's the organized crime scene in Slovenia like by the way ? I know it's a bit of a stretch to refer to the country as Balkan , however it's fitting for the purpose of this thread IMO .

Out of the former Yugoslavian states, Slovenia has always been hit the least by the "organized crime troubles" that region faced following the breakup. It seems to be the same in Slovenia as it is throughout the entire Balkans: a dominance by Serbian organized crime and Albanian organized crime.

Dragan Tosic - connected to Darko Saric and the Montenegro and Belgrade clans - operated in Ljubljana up until 2012.
(https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/1730-slovenia-balkan-warrior-trial-convicts-four-acquits-leader)

Albanians got busted fairly recently for pot trafficking.
(http://www.total-slovenia-news.com/...for-ljubljana-based-cobra-marijuana-gang)

It seems that Eastern European countries with an Orthodox culture tend to have more issues with organized crime than their Catholic counteparts . Anyways thanks for the information man .

I wouldn't say religion plays a really strong part in this. It seems that it has developed in some regions more than in others.
In the Balkans in Serbia and Montenegro ("Serbian mafia" - Orthodox) and in Northern Albania, Kosovo and Western Macedonia ("Albanian mafia" - Muslim). Of course there is localized organized crime in for instance Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and other parts of Macedonia, but it's mostly very local and doesn't really have its tentacles spread all over Europe.
In the former Soviet Union it has mostly developed in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus ("Russian mafia" - both Orthodox and Jewish), Georgia (Orthodox), Chechnya (Sunni Muslim), Azerbaijan (Shiite Muslim) and Armenia (Orthodox from the more Oriental variety). There's also organized crime in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Central Asia, but again it's extremely localized and not as far reaching as the aforementioned ones.
I honestly don't know why organized crime developed in some regions more than in the others. I don't think that religion really has a lot to do with it and truth be told, neither does poverty and violence - there are extremely poor and violent nations that didn't give birth to any type of far reaching organized crime and there are comparatively more well off nations that nurtured a significant type of organized crime.

That Skaljari group seems to be a not-to-be-fucked-with bunch.

They are one of most powerful groups in Balkans , i said that multiple times on this board. Now there are 2 clans , Skaljarski and Kavacki , since 200kg of cocaine disappeared in Spain. They are in war in the past 7 years.

Skaljarski clan killed Aleksandar Stankovic , who was one of most powerful people in Belgrade, they paid 300,000$ for that.

She´s the third journalist killed by organized crime in the EU in a year.

Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bulgarian-journalist-victoria-marinova-brutally-raped-and-murdered

it was a robbery, a 21 years old romanian gypsy was arrested