I thought it would be a good idea to have a seperate thread for Albanian OC. You can post news or open discussions freely about Albanian OC around the world.

Various sources indicate that the Albanians are taking over the position of Moroccan drug criminals in the Netherlands.
They started like the Moroccans. At first they did the dirty jobs, but they take an increasingly dominant position in the drug market. They already had them in England, but because the British police are pressing hard on them, more and more leaders are coming to Amsterdam and Rotterdam. These include big boys, who are now doing business with South American cartels themselves.
They rent luxury apartments in residential towers where no resident is registered. The men who rent the apartments with cash hardly show up. They prefer to send their car directly into the indoor parking garage, to take the elevator upstairs anonymously with filled sports bags in hand. It is the way of life for many Albanians who silently earn their money in the Rotterdam and Amsterdam drug scene.
Albanians were brought up by the Italian mafia, Albania is less than 100 kilometers from the south of Italy. It is also no coincidence that some 100 Mafia members are permanently resident in Albania.

Albanians and Italians over here tend to get along very well, despite the difference in religion - but it must be noted that most Albanians are extremely secular. Even moreso than Turks, Kurds and especially Moroccans.

Pretty sure there is a prominent Ndragheta member with an Albanian wife.

They must have great relationships, since so much of what the Calabrese do, is based on and for their blood.

Speaking of Moroccans, do the have anything in Montreal??

https://ibb.co/k9Nch0m

This is a map from a report from 2017 showing active "Families", "Organisations", "Ogranised crime" and "Criminal groups" in Albania

Don't think so. At least not that I'm aware of. Moroccan criminals tend to operate from where there's a large diaspora community and they're largely from that diaspora community. Albanian criminals on the other hand are more like globetrotters and are based in Albania, Kosovo or Macedonia.

Most Albanians that are born here are very law-abiding citizens that do well at school. They're also very entrepreneurial. An Albanian friend of mine has a solid office job but also started a taxi company with his brother; they work their asses off legitimately and it pays off.
Albanian criminals operating here mostly travel throughout Europe and their operations don't have a lot of local longevity. They're involved in a few drug, prostitution or extortion rackets for some time and then they either get busted or they carry on to the next destination when law enforcement is closing in on them.

Moroccan criminals on the other hand are most born in Belgium or the Netherlands in their local community and largely stick to operating in their city of birth. They're not so much "Moroccan criminals" as they are "Belgian or Dutch criminals with Moroccan roots". It's the same with the Algerians in France.

And in Antwerp it's not exactly true that the drug trafficking is a solely "Moroccan" affair. Out of the 5 large family-based drug trafficking organization that were identified a few years ago in Antwerp about 3 were Moroccan, another family was Algerian and another family were Assyrians from Turkey.

The so-called mocro mafia here is also a melting pot of all kinds of people, but all grew up here. For example the murdered drug trafficker Mario Magan Tier, also known as Bolle Mario or the Spaniard, was the son of a Spanish father and a Dutch mother.

An Albanian wanted by the Dutch police was arrested in Madrid. The man is suspected of cocaine trafficking and money laundering, as a member of a Colombian-Albanian criminal organization. The Netherlands had issued a European arrest warrant against him.

The police investigation in Spain started in September 2019, after the Dutch police arrested several people and confiscated 12 million euros. During the seizure, they found Ecuadorian and Colombian identity papers in the name of the suspect. The suspect was suspected to be in Spain.

The Spanish National Police eventually managed to locate the man, but due to the curfew, he was unable to leave his home. Judicial authorization was required to enter his home. In his apartment, agents found multi-currency money worth $ 40,000, as well as twenty expensive watches, jewelry (worth more than one million euros), three computers, six cell phones, and a drone.

https://joq-albania.com/artikull/747867.html

Albanian killed in his car in the middle of capital city Tirana by masked man with silenced gun.

https://www.qdpnews.it/treviso/3758...questrati-carichi-di-marijuana-e-cocaina

Albanian part of Ndrangheta arrested for murder of Besnik Mujaj in Lombardy 2017. The murder got linked from an investigation about drug trafficking in Veneto, Lombardy, Calabria also abroad in Albania, England, Romany and Germany from 2 years ago. During the operation 350 kilograms of Canabis and 270 grams of Cocaine and amphetamine were seized.

Albanian drug dealer jailed in London on cocaine and money laundering charges http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ed-in-london-on-cocaine-and-money-launde

Europe
Italian-led investigation busts ethnic Albanian crime gang
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A meticulously coordinated police operation in 10 countries has smashed an ethnic Albanian-organized crime syndicate that smuggled cocaine from South America into Europe and led to the arrest of 20 suspects, the EU’s police agency announced Thursday.

The gang, known as Kompania Bello, was one of Europe’s most active cocaine-trafficking networks, according to Europol, which helped coordinate a series of raids by hundreds of police officers on Tuesday that led to the arrests in a five-year Italian led investigation.

The gang is unusual in the massive international drug trade in that it controlled every aspect of the supply chain — from arranging drug shipments from South America to distributing it throughout Europe, said Jari Liukku, head of Europol’s European Serious and Organised Crime Centre.

The gang even stamped its own logo — and the logos of other crime groups it imported drugs for — on blocks of cocaine that were transported to Europe and often distributed using cars with concealed compartments to hide the drugs and illicit cash. It used Chinese-organized criminals to help launder the proceeds via an underground transfer system.

Over the course of the five-year investigation, 84 other members of the gang were arrested in Italy, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Britain, Switzerland and Germany. Police seized nearly four metric tones of cocaine and more than 5.5 million euros in cash during the investigation.

The suspects arrested Tuesday in countries including Italy, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates, are facing charges including international narcotics trafficking and murder.

Europol said the raids were the biggest ever against an ethnic Albanian crime gang and underscored the size of their operations — from negotiating with cartels in South America to distributing the drugs in Europe, Russia and Turkey, using encrypted communications to run the operation.

“You can see that organized crime is based on global networks — this group was a clear example of that,” Liukku said.

https://apnews.com/45f8958640294017bbbcde5ea77477aa

According to the 2011 Census there were 25,885 Canadians who claimed Berber ancestry.

Yes, since the 2000s, many people from north africa, mainly Algeria and Morocco have immigrated in Quebec. Saint-Leonard, Chomedey and Saint-Laurent are known to have a big algerian and moroccan population.

Another hit in central Italy, the 38-year-old Albanian was shot dead among the swimmers. Selavdi Shehaj, known as Simone, the criminal hit by two gunshots on the beach of Torvaianica last Sunday died. Now the charge for the two wanted killers is that of voluntary murder. The privileged path is that of a settling of scores linked to the sale of drugs. The anti-mafia is also investigating the case.

torvaianica is controlled by the sicilian mafia, if the antimafia is investigating they could be behind the hit

https://www.google.com/amp/s/englis...re-seized-in-kosovo-signaled-by-dea/amp/

Record number of 400 kilos of cocaine seized in Kosovo. The funny thing is that the first time a big weight like this has been seized it has been done through a worldwide operation of the DEA, Italian police, Albanian police and Kosovo police

Albanians and Calabrians do not get along in the lucrative German construction and drug rackets. They are constantly at war.

Well that's a first for me. I'm in Germany pretty often and I've never heard about Albanians and Calabrians being at war.
You got any links on this?

I never heard of this either but here's my 2 cents about the topic, about the construction the only logical way of this happening is the Italians extorting Albanian owned construction companies which there are plenty of them around Germany but I doubt the Calabrians have any power to extort around Germany, the other logical explanation is different Albanian and Calabrese construction companies going at it over who gets state tenders contrats. About the drug rackets I don't see how they could be at war knowing the good relations the Albanians have had over the years with the Calabrians even with both of the two groups being big players into drug trafficking in Germany, the Albanians also have a big street presence into Germany along with different groups like the Turks, Arabs, Gypsies which the Italians lack, so it doesn't make sense of the two being at war over the lucrative drug rackets in Germany.

Definitely agreed. Italian organized crime doesn't have a real "street presence" in Germany. You got Mafia, Ndrangheta and Camorra members that hide out in Italian businesses in Germany, but they are mostly laying low there and aren't conducting big time criminal operations. An internal settlement of disputes happens every once in a while - like the San Luca feud that culminated in the Duisburg shooting - but these are actually rare and are connected to clans that have been feuding for generations and these settlements are happening all over Europe.
There are Italian criminals in Germany but Germany is a hide out place for them. They're not trying to take over the criminal market and they're not going to war with any group that does have a huge street presence in Germany, like the bikers, Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Lebanese...even Chechens, Armenians, Vietnamese and Serbs/Montenegrins/Bosnians have a bigger criminal street presence in Germany than the Italians have. Calabrians aren't gonna battle with anyone over there and they aren't even interested in that.

Everything you said is on point, definitely agree with all of it. I can speak on the Albanians on my behalf and the presence of them not only on Germany but through out Europe is really big and influential. The latest bust on Kosovo of 400 kg of cocaine was supposedly Ndrangheta owned experts are saying, this furthermore proves the collaboration of Ndrangheta and different Albanian groups and clans.

I even believe members of the Ndrangheta have married Albanian women, they must be cool for that to occur.

Definitely. Furthermore, for everything that's been said about the "brutality of Albanian organized crime" they are actually very professional when it comes to violence. They're very similar in that regard to other well established criminal organizations like Italian, Turkish/Kurdish or former Yugoslavian groups for instance. They don't go to war with criminal groups from other ethnicities and they don't shoot people over nothing. Murder is taken seriously and when it happens it's basically always an internal dispute settlement. These settlements of course can be brutal, but these settlements are brutal in any criminal enterprise...I mean Irish, British and Dutch groups slice each other up as well.

Totally agree, Albanian organised crime groups take murder really seriously and have it as a last resort solution, but when they order a murder best believe the target is dying as they are really dangerous and professional on their job. The murders that happen in Albania are set straight from action movies: sniper kills, car bombings, kidnappings, ambushes, walk-ups, home invasions and every way you can think of killing someone it has most likely been done in Albania. I don't know how they got the reputation of being these brutal killing machines around europe as the Albanians rarely commit murders outside of Albania and neighbouring countries, I believe it has to do with the impulsive nature of Albanians as a whole.

Any truth to them being massive into human trafficking? I believe they have communities in Toronto, that are partnered in that with the Eastern Bloq type in Canada.

Are they Muslims or Eastern Orthodox Christian?They are clearly not white!

Albanian gangs were for some time "new players" in the underworld in Western Europe and as always the media is going to announce a new foreign type of organized crime as the most brutal thing that has ever existed. Like any other type of organized crime Albanian gangs can be extremely violent as well, but in reality they're not that much more ruthless than the other previously established crime groups are. In Western Europe there are way more murders associated with British, Irish and Dutch groups but you don't hear the news make much of a fuzz about that.

They are definitely big players in human trafficking on the Balkans, taking advantage of the poverty of many states they have turned it into a big profitable racket, just to be clear when I talk about human trafficking I mean illegally transporting people who want to go for a better life into western europe not that shit they portrayed in Taken which rarely happens as sex trafficking and kidnappings basically failed in Albania.

As for the religion most of them are Muslim with plenty of Christians and some Orthodox Christians it really depends on the region. As for the race they are definitely white, I don't know why you said that they are clearly not, when literally Alba means white from the Latin language.

Slavics weren’t considered white, that’s what I’m referring to, more of a WASP (White Anglo Saxon). I should of been more clear when I mentioned white, I just thought it was obvious, I apologize. I’m pretty sure that was what Slobodan Milosevic’s problem was, something they referred to as ‘ethic cleansing’? Not too sure??

I’ve been raised Dutch 🇳🇱 /German 🇩🇪 , that can also be found in Pennsylvanian 🇺🇸, a lot vocational and genetic beliefs. Mostly related to the House of Orange, specifically Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus.

There are a group of Albanians in Hamilton, Canada, that operate a Granite Shop ‘Rock With Us’? Doesn’t sound like they are moving people to a better life, seems like they live up to their low grade reputations, in white people like the above opinions. They date some cousins of some mobster Tony Christiano 🐒 🍌 type?

The girls last names are Buffalino, they all seem to love liquid ecstasy, class acts. That’s the date rape drug.

https://www.royal-house.nl/members-royal-house/princess-beatrix/marriage-and-family

I honestly don't know what are you trying to get at from this post, as for the Albanians race it is white and has been since the start as they are direct descendants of the Illyrians who lived in the Balkans long before the Serbs came. Don't even mention Milosevic who was a war criminal known for committing genocide on innocent civilians. Also why are you mentioning random people like that, if they own a Granite shop they most likely work hard and live off that family business, as there is no Albanian OC presence on Canada as far as I know.