The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL) considers Albania a “major source of herbal cannabis trafficked into the EU”. In the latest report published by EUROPOL, on serious and organized crime threat assessment for 2021, Albania continues to
A quantity of 49 kilograms of suspected cocaine was seized by a police operation in the Port of Durrës. The narcotics were found hidden in a banana container coming from Ecuador, through a route involving a stop in Turkey. According
The Special Anti-Corruption Structure (SPAK) has requested today two years of prison for the former Chief Prosecutor Adriatik Lalla. While initially the Prosecution’s Office of Durrës investigated the former Chief Prosecutor for several criminal offences, including money laundering, the file
Sweden’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ann Linde and Minister of Interior Mikael Damberg visited on Wednesday Tirana and met with Prime Minister Rama, primarily to discuss issues of the OSCE. Sweden will take over the presidency of the organization following Albania
By Sonja Methoxha TIRANA, March 26- Brothers Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara and Chetankumar Jayantilal Sandesara, and their brother-in-law Hitesh Narender Bhai Patel, were wanted in India for money fraud. The three men have allegedly acquired loans amounting to around 1 billion
TIRANA, March 19 – Albanian police, in cooperation with US, Canadian and other international law enforcement authorities, made 39 arrests and are seeking another 12 people — as part of busting up groups involved in trafficking more than 1,000 people
TIRANA, March 14 – The Italian anti-mafia department of Bari took down an Albanian-Italian drug-trafficking network on Wednesday that is alleged to have transported narcotics to the Italian coastline in speedboats. The operation, in progress since 2016 under the Albanian
TIRANA, March 13 – An explosion at a small cellphone repair shop in Tirana rented by 34-year-old Gentian Hoxha on Tuesday raised doubts the shop also served as an illegal hub to assemble cellphone controlled time bombs. Hoxha had been
TIRANA, Feb. 28 – Albanian police seized 613 kg of cocaine – the biggest quantity ever seized – valued €180 million in the market inside a container importing bananas from Columbia to the DurrÑ‘s port on Wednesday. Two 25-year-olds have
TIRANA, Feb. 14 – A business owner was shot in head with a silencer weapon in Tirana’s prestigious Blloku neighborhood at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Memli (Afrim) Begalla, 64, was going to his Range Rover parked below his
