Corruption, organized crime make money laundry in Albania

TIRANA, Oct. 17 – the United States office for International Narco-traffic said that corruption and organized crime were the main sources of money laundry in the tiny western Balkan country.
A report of the State Secretary office issued last week said that though the amount of money laundry is not defined, that is a great issue of concern that is also sponsoring crime there.
The organized crime groupings exploit the country as a basis of their operations in other countries and very often invest their money there.
The report, published at Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper, was made public last May.
It said that though there were improvement in that fight still the country was used as a source of human trafficking and also a transit point for drugs and weapon traffic.