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
an hour ago
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.

Not the White People like I mentioned that’s it, that’s my whole point. Don’t care about whatever you’re trying to convince me of.

As far as those people in Hamilton, do you know that City or what’s happened there, they got a lot of problems with blacks taking contracts on mobsters, who are the right type of white.

The way people talk about Albanians it’s hilarious, they are so dangerous because why they sell drugs and kill, welcome to business.

And whatever type of white that ain’t like the Waffen, works with or helps those things do that, so finding out who they are is important.

Obviously, Albanians don’t see a problem in white people coming under attack? I didn’t know that, but did know that certain people don’t consider them white. You really believe that White Americans or White Europeans actually consider non us, white! LOL

I know it’s only cinema, but this should help, if you don’t think this is how white men think, your not white, I’m sorry IMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6t0irD4Mw

Albanians are like Southern Italians and Greeks, so they're most definitely white imho.
Adding to this, there are a lot of Serb and Montenegrin people that are just as "Mediterranean" looking as Albanians are. So to say that for instance Yugoslavians are "white" and Albanians aren't, doesn't really make sense afaic.

Of course, to the average Stormfront commenter who's of Celtic-Germanic stock, Albanians won't be regarded as "white" but to them even Southern Italians and Greeks aren't white.

Where I live, there are quite a few Albanian people and in all truthfulness I can say that the vast majority of them - like the vast majority of Italians, Greeks, Turks, Kurds, Moroccans, etc... over here as well - are hard working people with a very strong sense of business. Of course there's Albanian organized crime, but they're a minority and don't cause trouble for the average person.

For instance, a friend of mine, who has origins in Kosovo, got his higher education, has a good job in the sales department and on top of this he runs his own taxi company during the weekend as well.

It always cracks me up when some local "white" guy over here is complaining about "those damn Moroccans bleeding our welfare dry! " when he himself stopped working full time when he was only 36 because of some bullshit "lower back pains" LOL.

Anyway, this is a forum to discuss organized crime and I don't see the point of turning this into a discussion board on race relations.

What I will say is this; I will ALWAYS respect a man when I feel he is deserving of getting respect...whether he's White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern or Polynesian...Christian, Jewish or Muslim...a person's ethnic background or his religion won't play a factor in whether I'm going to like and respect that person or not.
If anyone else feels different about this...well, I'm not going to be able to change someone else's opinion and I don't see use in trying to, but this is the way I view things and that's not going to change.

During the 90s war in Balkans , all the sides committed genocide on innocent civilians. And yes human trafficking is huge in Kosovo , you can literally buy a girl for 3000-4000 euros , everyone in Belgrade know who is doing it. Same as everyone knew that Velja and Mare were cutting people heads off and filming it all , organized crime in Balkans is "public secret" , everyone knows everything.

Europe is an open book, it’s a place of freedom, not slavery. They prophesied an an attack from the East with the Mongrel horde, nobody wants to admit that they raped their way from the West to Berlin as well in 1945.

Did they Albanians and Macedonians help genocide all the Armenians in 1914ish, I believe 1 Million people were slaughtered.

Totally agree with your stand-point, bringing up politics, race and history is useless to a forum like this, let's try to keep is as straight as possible and not deviate from the main topic which is Albanian OC where there is plenty to talk about.

To be honest with you I'm unfamiliar of prostitution of that kind which you mentioned buying girls for amounts of money, could you elaborate on it and which groups mainly deal with it

Albanian clan running industrial cannabis operation in Spain busted https://gangstersinc.org/blog/albanian-clan-running-industrial-cannabis-operation-in-spain-bust

The 39-year-old Bledar Muça was liquidated on Saturday evening in Aartselaar, Belgium. He was already seriously injured in an assassination attempt in 2016, in which Florenc Çapja was also the target.

Muça is a well-known name in Albanian judicial circles and has been involved in many criminal activities in the city of Elbasan. He was known there for his close ties to the Çapja mafia clan and was considered the 'right wing' of the notorious criminals Ardjan and Florenc Çapja.

Florenc Çapja was arrested in Dubai 8 months ago, suspected of two murders.

A 34-year-old Albanian who was liquidated in Ecuador on January 22 was one of the main leaders of the cocaine trade to Europe and part of Asia, according to Interpol. According to authorities, Ergys Dashi, riddled with more than 20 bullets, was one of the links between the Albanian and Russian mafia in South America.

The Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio wrote on Thursday that Dashi was fired on by gunmen in a restaurant in the city of Guayaquil and died on the spot from the hail of bullets. He was riddled about 7 p.m. on the particular Saturday night when two gunmen, one of them carrying a bouquet of flowers, entered the restaurant. A 26-year-old woman was also injured in the attack.

Ergys Dashi was arrested by Italian police in 2014 along with 31 other suspects in a major investigation into an Albanian drug clan , according to Albanian media . Twelve of them were sentenced to prison terms. The criminal organization, of which Dashi was a leader, trafficked large quantities of drugs in Albania, Spain and Bolivia, and then distributed them all over Italy. The group was also involved in forced prostitution and illegal possession of weapons.

in 2014 he was arrested in an anti-camorra bust in abruzzo

https://abruzzoweb.it/operazione-anti-camorra-nel-chietino-31-arresti-gestivano-spaccio-di-droga/

Albanian-run cocaine pipeline from Latin America to Europe shut down – 45 arrests in 6 countries https://gangstersinc.org/blog/albanian-run-cocaine-pipeline-from-latin-america-to-europe-shut-d

Albanian drug supply "fixer" who operated in England jailed https://gangstersinc.org/blog/albanian-drug-supply-fixer-who-operated-in-england-jailed

Bashkim Osmani is one of these arrested guys,I am curious
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...t-a-9aeff2fa-76f8-47c3-9f5e-329943d4839a

Alleged mafia boss due to be transferred to Mallorca
2022-02-19 Palma By Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

Bashkim Osmani, the alleged mafia boss targeted by Tuesday's massive police operation against money laundering, is expected to be brought to Mallorca from Croatia next week. Osmani was arrested at his BO Palazzo Hotel in Porec as part of the police operation, which was carried out simultaneously in various countries.

The 55-year-old Kosovar Albanian, whose base is his five-million-euro mansion in Camp de Mar in one of the most exclusive areas of Andratx, was at his hotel in northern Croatia. Investigators from the Guardia Civil and the National Police went to Croatia to collaborate in the arrest, there having been a fear that a leak might have ruined the entire operation. Osmani is said to have contacts across Croatia and to have under his control a former head of the Croatian secret service as well as current agents.

He did not resist arrest, and it is suggested that he had anticipated that his lawyers would get him released. However, he is being held in a maximum security prison, awaiting transfer to Mallorca. Investigators say that it is crucial that he is brought to Mallorca. Were he to remain in eastern Europe, he could receive "preferential treatment".

Osmani (center) with Hollywood star Nick Nolte.

A 43-year-old man was seriously injured in a shooting in Brussels on Saturday evening. According to Albanian media , the victim is Albanian Erion Hasanbelliu. He would fight for his life in the hospital. The gunman is said to be 44-year-old Albanian criminal Kasandër Noga . The two have been embroiled in a bloody feud for over 20 years.

Victim Erion Hasanbelliu was shot on Saturday evening around 8.20 pm in front of the NH Collection Hotel on De Brouckèreplein in the center of Brussels. He was hit by six bullets in his back and legs.

According to Belgian media, the Public Prosecution Service is investigating the shooting and a search is underway for the alleged gunman Kasandër Noga .

Albanians lasted as long as the Russians and ch*nks...As soon as their leadership got pinched, they all folded

Rise of the Albanians: Europe's New Cocaine Kings https://gangstersinc.org/video/rise-of-the-albanians-europe-s-new-cocaine-kings

Over the years the Albanians have been known to sometimes "work" with and ally to Calabrian and Puglia factions of the underworld in Southern Italy. I imagine this is due to the close geographic proximity of Albania to those regions in Italy.

In fact, certain ancient Albanian families have bloodlines that trace to Italian blood. This is another reason for some interaction between the groups. So although in America, specifically NYC, you will often read that Albanian and Italian factions are at odds with one another (which is completely true), back in Europe there is a sort of love-hate relationship that exists between them.

Albanians, Southern Italians and Greeks have many genetic and even cultural similarities, despite of course the prevalent Ottoman influence on Albanian culture. Generally I've seen Italians and Albanians to get along quite well and with the Italian criminal organizations being the number one players in European organized crime and Albanian criminal organizations being big players as well it's not strange that these factions would find each other. After all, in European organized crime there's not much of an ethnic war going on and almost all underworld hits are a direct result of internal feuds.

As far as Italian and Albanian crime groups being at odds in NYC...I don't really read a lot about this. Last time something like that seem to happen is when the Rudaj group ran wild, but those were more like former LCN associates who decided to go rogue.

You are correct TKJ. I largely agree with your assessment. (but there have been several other "undocumented" incidents I'm familiar with as far as conflicts between the groups in NYC. Some of these guys don't like each other).

I think about 20% of Albanians are catholic.

The ones I know locally are they have old world values similar to old school Italians.
They are STUBBORN as fuck.

I have mistakenly taken them for Italians.

And everyone in between

It's funny one or two interactions

And all of a sudden, they are pushing the Italians out

Same story again and again.

Even though LCN, is a mere shell of what it once was
No one can come close

In europe Albanian criminals often use fake Italian names.

How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-the-albanian-mafia-corrupted-europe/

More on the most prominent organization, which brings together several clans, Kompania Bello. It has been one of the largest and most widespread in countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany.

Article is in spanish.

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-63579332

Is that just in Italy, or all over Europe?

At least in the Netherlands, but I'm sure elsewhere in Europe too
Apart from Albania and Kosovo, Albanian is spoken in southern Italy, the Arbëreshë are an Albanian minority in the south of the Apennine Peninsula and Sicily. They came from Albania from the 15th century.
In the north of Albania and in the capital Tirana, many Albanians also speak Italian.

"The Albanian Mafia have flooded Italy with drugs thanks to the Sacra Corona Unita"

The head of the Special Structure against Corruption and Organized Crime (locally known by the acronym SPAK) Altin Dumani recently gave an interview to the Italian media "La Rebbulica", where he talked about the Albanian mafia, the mission of SPAK and the involvement of politics with crime.

https://www.ocnal.com/2023/04/the-albanian-mafia-have-flooded-italy.html

Albanian Gangs Have Set Up Their Own CCTV Networks to Spy on Cops

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgynb4/albanian-gangs-cctv

Albanian crime group busted in Belgium and Germany – Clan-based network trafficked throughout Europe https://gangstersinc.org/blog/albanian-crime-group-busted-in-belgium-and-germany-clan-based-net

‘Clan Farruku’ Arrests Highlight Albanians’ Latin America Cocaine Connections

Spanish authorities have dismantled an Albanian criminal group that trafficked cocaine from Latin America across Europe, showcasing the increasing importance of Albanian crime rings to the transatlantic drug trade.

https://insightcrime.org/news/albania-clan-farruku-cocaine-pipeline-ecuador-to-europe/

Albanians arrested in Rotterdam home where firearms are located
June 23, 2023

The police arrested five Albanians on Thursday in a house on Paradijslaan in Rotterdam-Crooswijk during a so-called "undermining action".

Officers saw a car driving on Thursday that caught their eye. It stopped at a house on Paradijslaan. As the occupants enter the home, officers check the residential address and license plate number within the police systems. This shows that there may be a person present in the house who is still under arrest to be arrested.

When the police then enter the house, they find five men and three firearms. The man who was spotted is not present in the house. The five men aged 26, 32, 34 (2x) and 36 from Albania have been arrested.

During the raid, three firearms, a silencer, money, several data carriers, a luxury watch, jewelery and a vehicle were seized.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-Outer-Harbour-Docklands-Adelaide.html

Kellett Australia boss Troy Kellett could have been 'pressured' to help the Albanian mafia import drugs before falling to his death from shipping container at Outer Harbour Docklands in Adelaide

Imported 6 tons of cocaine from the Netherlands to Milan, who is Edmond Dodaj, former member of the Special Forces!
He was arrested after 10 years on the run in Laç

Editorial
August 26, 16:50 | Update: August 26, 5:37 p.m

Edmond Doda, arrested two days ago in Laç, on (August 24), wanted by the Italian authorities after being accused of being a participant in a criminal organization composed of other Albanians, had imported 6 tons of cocaine from the Netherlands to Milan .

Dodaj had imported cocaine from the Netherlands through his gang from the port of Rotterdam, where according to the analysis of the Italian media Corriere Della Sera, the Albanian criminals may have even bribed the workers to avoid controls on the containers from South America.

Edmond Dodaj worked for the Special Forces in Albania, when the Minister of the Interior was Saimir Tahiri. Dodaj is young in age, but he belongs to the "old school" of Albanian gangs, who have long climbed into positions, transforming from "unqualified", into privileged intermediaries, both from the "Ndrangheta" mafia organization, and from South America.

The 42-year-old, who had been wanted for 10 years, was arrested in the city of Laçi with the intention of extradition to Italy after being declared an international wanted by Interpol Rome. The Milan court had issued an international arrest warrant against him, for the criminal offense "Criminal group in the field of drug trafficking", provided by the Italian Criminal Code.

Local media are interested in whether Dodaj will ever speak when he is tried in Italy? Will he cooperate to reveal the network of collaborators, opponents to bury, or protectors who, according to Corriere, could be high officials or politicians.

MQ/EH/Alxiptarja.com

Drug lord Besnik N. aka Nico aka El Gordo arrested in Colombia. He's wanted in 180 countries!

Prolific Albanian drug dealer sentenced – Supplied over 1 million worth’ of cocaine in 4 months https://gangstersinc.org/blog/prolific-albanian-drug-dealer-sentenced-supplied-over-1-million-w

Albanian organized crime groups have become key players in Italy’s criminal landscape, prompting targeted operations from authorities.

https://riskbulletins.globalinitiat...rime-groups-have-become-key-players.html

Drugs, the "turn over" gang between Italy and Albania: 22 arrests, there is also the brother of one of the cousins ??killed in 2016
by Andrea Camurani
Prominent figures of the Albanian "mafia" involved families in their country of origin to have fresh workers to put to work, in shifts of three months at a time

The Carabinieri who during the investigations observed the movements and activities of the gang specialized in dealing large quantities of drugs between Varesotto and Milanese were amazed at the almost workaholic ability of the affiliates to take, process, package and sell the doses. Then they understood : they took turns . And when it came time to sum up, that is, after having gathered the elements to make the arrests through the coordination of the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office (DDA) of Milan, it was no coincidence that the entire operation was called "turn over".

Twenty-two arrests, of which 20 in prison and 2 under house arrest, many of them prominent figures of the Albanian "underworld" who also involved families in their country of origin to have fresh workers to employ in the drug dealing centers, but also in all the logistical phases of traffic in various provinces of Northern Italy; a vast area where at dawn on Wednesday the Carabinieri of the operational and mobile radio unit of Busto Arsizio went to ring the doorbells of the suspects to have them handcuffed: V arese, Milan, Lecco, Bergamo and Novara, with over 80 soldiers employed and canine units.

The investigative activity started from the arrest in flagrante delicto of an Albanian citizen found in possession of 110 doses of cocaine, for a total weight of almost one ounce, and approximately 12 thousand euros in cash, an arrest carried out by the company's soldiers of Busto Arsizio in June 2020. The subsequent investigative activities developed both through traditional investigations - confidences and stakeouts - and with "technical" findings which made it possible to reconstruct the dense network of pushers active between the lower Varesotto and the hinterland Milanese.

"The depth of the criminal group is also highlighted by the meticulous internal organisation, with associates in charge of logistical support in favor of the pushers coming from Albania, the supply and transport of drugs and the packaging of the doses", explain the carabinieri, who have reconstructed also the duration of the work "shift" of the family members who remained in Italy for approximately three months before returning to the Land of the Eagles.

The investigations already during the investigative phase had borne the hoped-for results: 6 red-handed arrests, and more than a quintal of drugs seized including coca, hashish and heroin which would have brought in approximately 3 million euros on the market (in addition to 453,000 euros in cash seized).

One of those arrested on Wednesday is the brother of one of the victims of the Canegrate shooting who left two bodies on the ground in November 2016 during a feud between rival gangs for control of the territory.

11 tonnes of Albanian mafia cocaine seized on Spanish coast

https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/12/11-tones-of-albanian-mafia-cocaine-seized-on-spanish-coast

Who is the "Albanian drug lord" who ordered 11 tons of cocaine? Police: Many of the 20 arrested are Albanians

https://www.voxnews.al/english/aktu...e-porositi-11-ton-kokaine-policia-i54488

This week a man who was on the run for nearly 20 years has been arrested in Alicante, the leader of a criminal organisation was wanted for a double murder.

The detainee, notorious for leading a criminal syndicate linked to dozens of murders since 1998, has finally been caught. This individual’s criminal activities began in the early ’90s, with his organisation named after Durres, a key city in Albania, a name which symbolised its expansive influence.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/12/18/albanian-fugitive-crime-boss-arrested-in-alicante/

Alicante, Benidorm area a lot is going on there international crime is firmly rooted in the area, Italian, Dutch, Russians, British are prominent examples.

yes, Spain is a paradise for criminal group from all over Europe

Alicante is also home to many marijuana farms inside warehouses on industrial estates.

i have never heard albanian clans moving so much cocaine at one time not even Kompania Bello, it was usually serbian/montenegrins to move in a similar scale

The Spanish and Dutch police have arrested five suspects who are said to be part of a criminal organization involved in large-scale cocaine trafficking. Three suspects have been arrested in Spain, two in the Netherlands. The five are linked to the seizure of more than 2,300 kilos of cocaine in Spain. This concerns drug seizures in the port of Bilbao, in 2020, and in Algeciras, in 2021 and 2022.

In November 2022, arrest teams conducted four raids in the provinces of Madrid and Alicante and two in Amsterdam. A total of five suspects were arrested: three in Spain and two in the Netherlands. The arrested men are suspected of large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, participation in a criminal organization and the import of 2,348 kilos of cocaine into Spain.

Albanian leader
Spanish police also report that North American authorities have previously arrested a prominent Albanian drug trafficker who was living in the United States. This Albanian is accused of heading an extensive drug network that distributed cocaine in more than fifteen countries, including Spain. The investigative services also link him to plans to build an 'underwater drone' to transport large shipments of cocaine between South America and Europe. This investigation in the US coincides with the Spanish investigation into the 1,100 kilos of cocaine intercepted at the port of Bilbao in 2020.

In addition to the Spanish police and the Guardia Civil, the Dutch police and the American DEA are also involved in the “Bandi-Hammer” investigation.

European Police Arrest 59 To Smash Albanian Drug Gang

https://www.barrons.com/news/european-police-arrest-59-to-smash-albanian-drug-gang-41422b56

Albanian drug lord to be deported as ‘threat to public safety’ outweighs his human rights
Judges ruled returning Neritan Kolludra to his country would not impact his family life as much as ‘the serious risk of him reoffending’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ported-threat-public-safety-human-right/

A convicted firearms supplier is facing more time behind bars after phone evidence gathered following his arrest showed he had also peddled drugs. 24-year-old Albanian national Klejdi Kazani (photo above) was jailed for seven years in May 2022 after he was caught with a self-loading pistol and ammunition while he drove on the M1 in Hertfordshire in August 2021.
More: https://gangstersinc.org/blog/jailed-albanian-firearms-supplier-also-was-a-drug-dealer-crew-dis

Italy police find drug dealers testing remote-controlled sub

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...esting-remote-controlled-sub-2024-05-14/

Crackdown on Albanian crime syndicate results in 17 arrests
Tuesday 4 June 2024
By
The Brussels Times with Belga

Confiscated cocaine. Credit: Belga/ Nicolas Maeterlinck
Seventeen arrests have been made across Europe, including Belgium, under a large-scale drug investigation targeting an Albanian crime syndicate.

Tuesday’s operation centred on 12 raids in Belgium - in Antwerp, Schoten, and Saint-Nicolas - conducted by the federal judicial police, in coordination with local law enforcers from Antwerp. Additional raids were carried out in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Austria.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1076613/crackdown-on-albanian-crime-syndicate-results-in-17-arrests

In his prime, John Alite at one time was the baddest Albanian mobster in NYC. Before he turned into a Rat of course.

Also the best dressed and most physically conditioned guy on the street with the best tan.

I know he is not admired on these boards but you must admit there was a time that he was respected by many.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...fer-deal-tackle-overcrowding-crisis.html

Albanian kingpin, 39, who smuggled millions of pounds of cocaine into Britain could be freed from prison early in transfer deal to tackle overcrowding crisis

I honestly can't believe he is actually gaining clout among Albanians. The guy thought he was Italian all his life until he turned rat and then all of the sudden he starts acting like he's super Albanian.

^^^^ wtf is that? Honestly he looks like a clown doing that.

LOL

Man oh man, Im having a glass of wine tonight or two after seeing this shit. Giving me anxiety big time, wtf?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The fact that these launder money means that these are narco-states", Spahiu "breaks down" the details: the Italian mafia launders 1000 times more money in the USA and the EU than in Albania

https://sot.com.al/english/politike...e-se-keto-jane-narko-shtete-spah-i667695

Albanian drug boss Bujar Cozminca gets 12 years for multimillion dollar cocaine deal https://gangstersinc.org/2024/07/03...rs-for-multimillion-dollar-cocaine-deal/

Contract killings and complex money laundering: Albanian crime group busted https://gangstersinc.org/2024/08/01...-laundering-albanian-crime-group-busted/

Two questions:

1) Are the Albanians bigger than the Italians in the underworld?

2) Besides the well-known John Alite, do Albanians have a rat problem, like the organizations from Italy? I never hear about Albanian justice collaborators.

1) apples and oranges, Albanian criminal groups do not have a hierarchical and centralized structure, they are more similar to the 'Banda della Magliana' to give an example with an Italian group, but very different to Cosa Nostra or the Ndrangheta

2) there are few repentants among Albanians

They may not be as structured or organized as the Ndrangheta or Cosa Nostra, but reading through this thread I was very impressed.

And oh yeah, the Italians be talking their asses off lol, seems like every other sentence mentions justice collaborator or pentiti.

naturally among Italians there are more repentants, the Italian laws in this regard are much harsher, in Canada how many repentant Italians are there? very few

They are particular brutal among themselves, like the Italians in the 80s, but they are more spread throughout Europe.


The Çopja family has been in a bloody feud with another criminal clan from Albania since at least 2012, which has already claimed dozens of victims, mainly in Western Europe.

This is a clan that originates from the city of Elbasan, southeast of the capital Tirana. The deputy director of a prison in that city and a former judge from Elbasan are also among the suspects.

Franc Çopja was extradited from Dubai to Belgium in 2023. In Belgium, he is suspected of, among other things, ordering the liquidation of Ardit Spahiu in Brussels-Molenbeek on 28 November 2020, and two other murders in Belgium.

I think the Albanians have their shit together more than the Mafia, and they don't rat.

Albanians are powerful, but like i said before they can't be compared to the Mafia because they have not a centralized structure, ranks and cerimony of initiation, in other words they are not a single entity, they tend to be smaller, less hierarchical and organized, and more fluid than a Mafia family; they are criminal enterprises more than organized crime like an FBI agent declared

They have their own structure very clannish. Balkan crime groups, not only Albanians, have eschewed the top-down, territorial structure of cartels from Mexico and Colombia, working instead in small cells

The typical structure of the Albanian mafia is hierarchical. A family clan is referred to as a "fis" or a "fare." Families contain an executive committee known as a "Bajrak" and select a high-ranking member for each unit.

according to FBI and italian police there is no defined hierarchy, a group is made up of people who come from the same city or neighborhood, often relatives, with a more or less recognized leader, but it does not have a defined structure. They operate in small, fluid, less hierarchical groups, that's the reason FBI call them "criminal enterprises"

Maybe it's a mix of both. Maybe there are clans like what Hollander is speaking of and others that are not.

it's possible, but all the examples we have so far looking at indictments and police reports (for example Rudaj gang in New York, Demce gang in Italy and several others) seem to point us to the fact that they are fluid and less hierarchical organizations; this is also the main reason why in Italy there are very few Albanian citizens charged with 416-bis (mafia-type association), even less than other foreigner groups like the Nigerians

What is interesting in the criminal report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior, is the fact that in Albanian criminal organizations, an increase in the participation of women, even in leadership positions, has been seen.

'Albanian police chief and son were behind the smuggling of 446 kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands'
August 9, 2024

A shipment of 446 kilos of cocaine that was intercepted in the Netherlands in early 2021 was intended for a group of Albanians and Dutch. The son of a police chief in Tirana is said to be behind the drug transport, among other things. This is reported by the Albanian medium Pamfleti .

(Photo: Eralbi Breçani and his father, former police chief Erzen Breçani)

Maasvlakte
According to prosecutors in Albania, the seizure of 446 kilos of cocaine in the Netherlands on January 5, 2021 is attributed to a criminal group, consisting of the suspects Ismail Zeneli, Besmir Murtati, Eralbi Breçani and his father Erzen Breçani. The coke was found in a container on the Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam.

Two Dutch people were arrested on the spot: Roelof den O. (53) from Zoelen, and Dirk Evert B. (39) from Amersfoort.

Police Chief
Erzen Breçani was the former deputy director of the police in Tirana, the capital of Albania. According to the Albanian authorities, the four suspects are said to have worked together with others and the drug lord Ergys Dashi, who was liquidated in Ecuador in early 2022 , to smuggle 446 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador to the Netherlands.

The suspects came into the picture after hacking chat conversations via Sky ECC.

https://www.crimesite.nl/albanese-p...smokkel-446-kilo-cocaine-naar-nederland/