Are there still Albanian crews since the arrests of several crews like the Rudaj, Krasniqi, Wolfpack in New York and New Jersey or a crew arrested in Philadelphia?
And since the weakening of several families on the east coast and Chicago and Detroit can they take over as the Rudaj Organization had wanted done in the early 2000s?

A big NO !!! Wont ever happen.
Albaians are not LCN. They also have a rather bad reputation as people that would sell their own mothers for a dollar.

Must see they are like even had big crew as I mentioned above and now some of it's members come out of prisons and then their new generations look stronger than the Italian all proportion keep

The mob keep quality before quantity,the Rudaj organization was disbanded after most of the members went to prison while the mob is still there and I never read of an Albanian guy that made money with constructions,unions ecc like do the mafia.

On the subject of construction I agree with you furio never Albanians will be able to have the level of the Italians in this field.
But several members of the Rudaj and other crews are coming out of prisons and even other younger Albanians will want to make a place in the criminal world of New York and New Jersey especially in rackets and traffic drug.

I doubt that if the albanians would try agains the Gambinos won't kill him immediatly without sit downs.

Here is listed only part of the members,anyone had the complete list ?

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/June06/rudajsentencingpr.pdf

ALEX RUDAJ
Register Number: 02381-748
Age: 50
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Fort Dix FCI
Release Date: 06/29/2028

NARDINO COLOTTI
Register Number: 19098-054
Age: 55
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Allenwood Low FCI
Release Date: 05/04/2028

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nys/pressreleases/June06/rudajsentencingpr.pdf

NIKOLA DEDAJ
Register Number: 56983-054
Age: 54
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Fort Dix FCI
Release Date: 12/24/2027

PRENKA IVEZAJ
Register Number: 56993-054
Age: 51
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Fort Dix FCI
Release Date: 06/06/2024

ANGELO DIPIETRO
Register Number: 00255-748
Age: 60
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Allenwood USP
Release Date: 04/13/2079

What are the albanians going to get involved in? Strong arm shit and drug dealing that will only get them thrown in prison again. They arent very sophisticated.
They are a criminal gang with delusions of becoming mobsters.

Well said Aces and if give troubles the mob could hire Liam Neeson for kill them like he did in Taken.

Ok I understood lol the Albanians are thugs who do not have the level of the Italians.
Do you think that Russians, Ukrainians ... (people from eastern Europe) could replace the mafia in the future?
Or they also not level?

Albanians are much more widespread and bigger than people think or give them credit for,There are many many more that make Rudaj look like a saint.They fly way under the radar and are extremely secretive ! They are nowhere near the Italians in unions etc but today they are much more powerful than 15 or 20 plus years ago,They have made inroads into some of the construction and other unions,One union they have locked down is 32 B/J ,You can't get in unless you are Albanian or are very close to one,They control many of the buildings in the boroughs and NJ,Superintendents,Cleaners,Maintenance,Custodians/Operating engineers.They also now own they're own construction companies Residential/commercial and bid on government,city,state projects.They are definitely less likely to rat on one another,Testify,Give up information due to the level of violence they dish out ! They know that most will not hesitate to commit acts of violence and murder against a persons extended family here in the US and overseas.The Italians hate them because they know if they have any type of beefs with them they would have to kill them which they won't do because the Italians are so far removed from violence ! Situations like the one that occurred years back in that gas station with the Gambinos and the luccheses getting beat downs and they're operations taken happen much more than is know to the general public !

Wow.

You just know everything about everything don't you.

No,But I have spent basically my entire younger years in the streets and Jails/prisons, and around many people from different backgrounds and ethnicities which was a long time ago

Supposedly,Some say Ismael Lika was the inspiration for Christopher Walken's character Frank White in king of Ny

1. Hajdin Abazi
2. Ekrem Avdija
3. Alush Agushi
4. Rasim Agushi
5. Nazmi Ajeti
6. Hisni Ahmeti
7. Abdulah Babalija
8. Masar Bakija
9. Idriz Balaj
10. Afrim Basha
11. Sokol Bashota
12. Bajram Bega
13. Gjemajl Bejta
14. Avni Berisha
15. Rustem Berisha
16. Shefik Beqiri
17. Lahi Ibrahimi
18. Ram Buja
19. Shukri Buja
20. Jah Bushati
21. Jusuf Velia
22. Azem Veseli
23. Kadri Veseli
24. Rexhep Veseli
25. Sali Veseli
26. Skender Veseli
27. Besim Vokshi
28. Latif Gashi
29. Fahrudin Gashi.
30. Jetulah Gecaj
31. Sabit Gecaj
32. Gani Geci.
33. Adem Grabovci
34. Jahir Demaku
35. Milazim Derguti
36. Jetulah Dibrani
37. Sokol Dobruna
38. Shaban Dragaj
39. Florim Ejupi
40. Agim Elshani
41. Xhabir Zharku
42. Dritton Zhjeqi
43. Tahir Zemaj
44. Genc Zogaj
45. Bislim Zyrapi
46. Nuredin Ibishi
47. Imri Ilazi
48. Gani Imeri
49. Elisah Imeri
50. Bexhet Imishti
51. Ahmet Isufi
52. Lirim Jakupi
53. Januz Januzaj
54. Bashkim Jashari
55. Musa Jashari
56. Rifat Jashari
57. Sahit Jashari
58. Naim Kadriu
59. Giner Kamberi
60. Ajvaz Karpuzi
61. Ajet Kastrati
62. Kadri Kastrati
63. Mensur Kasumi
64. Naser Kelmendi
65. Hisni Kilaj
66. Anton Kitaj
67. Fadhil Kodra
68. Arif Krasniqi
69. Gani Krasniqi
70. Gjimshit Krasniqi
71. Emin Krasniqi
72. Jakup Krasniqi
73. Skender Krasniqi
74. Bajram Kryeziu
75. Mazlom Kumnova
76. Mirsad Kurteshi
77. Agim Kuqi
78. Ramiz Lladrovci
79. Fatmir Limaj
80. Ekrem Lluka
81. Isa Latifi
82. Muhamet Latifi
83. Lulzim Leci
84. Afrim Lulaj
85. Nuredin Lushtaku
86. Sami Lushtaku
87. Enver Mavriqi
88. Naim Maloku
89. Faton Mehmetaj
90. Nazif Mehmeti
91. Fadil Mujota
92. Shefqet Musliu
93. Isak Musliu
94. Rustem Mustafa
95. Salih Mustafa
96. Arif Muqoli
97. Maliq Ndrecaj
98. Selami Neziri
99. Jakup Nura
100. Enver Oruçi
101. Gjumshit Osmani
102. Nebih Preniqi
103. Rahman Rama
104. Illmi Ramusholi
105. Elmi Reqica
106. Ekrem Rexha
107. Bedri Rexhaj
108. Ismet Sadiku
109. Ruzhdi Saramati
110. Rexhep Selimi
111. Sylejman Selimi
112. Abedin Sogojeva
113. Fatmir Sopi
114. Azem Syla
115. Shemsi Syla
116. Fadil Suljević
117. Emrush Suma
118. Rufki Suma
119. Ismet Tara
120. Gani Thaqi
121. Hashim Thaqi
122. Ahmet Qeriqi
123. Ramiz Qeriqi
124. Sami Ukshini
125. Avni Feta
126. Adem Hagjocaj
127. Abit Haziraj
128. Sadik Halitjaha
129. Xhavit Haliti
130. Bujar Haradinaj
131. Daut Haradinaj
132. Ramush Haradinaj
133. Nait Hasani
134. Safet Hasani
135. Xhabit Hasani
136. Zeqir Haxhija
137. G¸zim Haxhimusa
138. Hekuran Hoda
139. Fatmir Humolli
140. Sabajdin Cena
141. Agim Çeku
142. Ethem Çeku
143. Muhamet Çerkezi
144. Emrush Xhemajli
145. Idriz Shabani
146. Besnik Shala
147. Shaban Shala
148. Shaban Shala
149. Naser Shatri
150. Xhafer Shatri
151. Mustafa Shaqiri
152. Shaqir Shaqiri
153. Adem Shehu
154. Elbasan Shoshaj
155. Bekim Shuti
156. Met Shuti
These are some of the Biggest names in the Albanian Mafia clans and OC.Most have operations,family,connections in the US and some have been arrested and indicted here,They also have operations in many countries including Italy,Sicily,Canada,Germany,China,Australia, Belgium etc..

to the post above... i wouldnt say albanians have 32BJ locked down. maybe they make up the bulk of the members because every building in the city is staffed with albanians, but they dont have it locked down. i know about a dozen kids personally from my old neighborhood who got into that union who arent albanian. i helped 3 of them get in there personally, because i knew the manager of a building (family friend) - who also wasnt albanian

but...albanians make up a good number of supers or buiilding managers , and they tend to hire other Albanians...so i can see where the numbers come from. but literally anyone can get in that union. its huge, and its not hard to get in if you get hired at a building and can make a solid 3 months there

for whatever its worth every albanian kid i met in my life sold drugs and drove either an infiniti or a lexus lol

I don't know about the US, but here they are a menace in particular the Kosovar Albanians. It's an intereresting little country, Albania, the only Muslim country in the whole of Europe.

Bosnia and herzegovina.

Well don't know about all that ! But 32 BJ is the easiest Union to get into !!!!

And work for and move up in !!

Partly true because that country also consists of Republika Srpska.

Lol, Lexus,Infiniti,etc funny shit definitely 100% true !!

While they are still no where near the power,influence, level of the 5 fans and probably never will be they have managed to get themselves into bigger positions of influence and power in today's day n age

Hollander,You know a lot about overseas goings on, They say that in Italy the mainland and Sicily that the Albanians are welcome with open arms and The Camorra ,Cosa Nostra, Ndrangheta considered the Albanians as one n the same, Like one of they're own and are equal to

Saviano said that, but it's a bit of an exaggeration imo. They do have close links because most Albanians can speak Italian. We had Albanian criminals in Amsterdam who even used Italian names.

Albanian Organized Crime controls 55% of the world's heroin trade and 47% of arm smuggling. Albanian mafia is based on family groups. The division among clans or family groups in Albania was originally a social division, not a criminal one. Today, every activity in Albania still works in that way. To understand the international heroin trade it is essential to understand Albanian organized crime. This is because it is the Albanians who are the link between Afghan and Pakistani heroin growers, Turkish producers and the world market. The Albanians are among the world's most well connected criminals. In order for them to ply their trade they deal with the Italian 'Ndrangheta, Camorra, Stidda and Mafia, as well as the Russian Solsentskya mob, Polish organized crime (who are among Europe's main methamphetimine producers) and Nigerian, Colombian, Mexican, Serbian, British, Irish, Dutch, and Kurdish criminal syndicates. In fact they work with every group around the world. Their most troubling links perhaps are with terrorist groups from Serbia to Afghanistan. Structural links between politically connected terrorist groups and criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking, armed robbery, extortion and illicit smuggling of humans became a major problem for the world's nations during the 1990's as state's became more reluctant to fund terrorist groups. Terrorists and organized criminals became hinged at the waist as both saw that they could make money together. The Albanians perhaps more so than many other groups have become dependent on their relationship with terror groups and the government of terror connected groups. The Taliban after all was in control of most of the world's heroin supply: the Afghan Northern Alliance has now taken over this role and thus the Albanian connections. Albanian organized crime groups are hybrid organizations. These groups are involved in both crime and politics. Unlike many organized crime groups many of the Albanian organizations do have a political ideology, which governs their actions. In 1986 the break up of the "Pizza connection" made it possible for other ethnic crime groups to occupy the terrain of the Italian and Italian American crime families. This was especially easy for the Albanian groups because they had worked extremely closely with the Sicilian Mafia and their American counterparts since at least the early 1970's. In september 1985, the Federal officials estimate that Albanian groups had imported more than 110 pounds of heroin with a retall or "street" value of $125 million through the Balkan connection before the ring was broken up. Federal agents believe the drugs had been sold in New York, California, Texas and Illinois. In september of 1985, for 45 minutes Mr.Rodolph Giuliani (former U.S. Attorney and mayor) and his chief assistant, William Tendy, listened to and evaluated the tale. Five other informants later corroborated it. The threatened lawmen-assistant prosecutor Alan M. Cohen and narcotics agent Jack Delmore-were given 24-hour-a-day protection by federal marshals. Number of his colleagues share that perception. Mr. Giuliani says that he himself has been threatened. The drug case that brought forth the threats Mr. Giuliani is concerned about involved the disruption of the so-called "Balkan connection" heroin trade conducted by among others a loosely organised group of ethnic Albanians, centered in New York. A federal probe into this drug traffic and other possible crimes, including the alleged plot to kill officials, is in progress. The drug investigation and the criminal activities of a group of Albanian-Americans have attracted "LITTLE PUBLICITY". This is the exact condition, which faciliated the transformation of the mafia in Italy during the 19th century. “What’s the difference between the Italian mafia and the Albanian mafia?” the magistrate in a southern Italian port paused for a moment to find the comparison he was looking for. “When our mafia wants to intimidate you it shoots you in the knees. But when the Albanians want to frighten you, they kill you.” Then Italy’s growing problem with the criminal underbelly of the influx of refugees crossing the Adriatic seemed just a by-product of geography. Italy is only 40 miles from Albania so it was caught up in the backwash of Balkan problems. Maybe Albanian gangs were conquering the Italian underworld, but surely organised crime was really a traditional Italian vice and not the sort thing to hit Britain? Already 70% of prostitution in Central London is controlled by Albanian gangs. The problem of the Albanian mafia in Britain will be raised in Edinburgh, when some of the world's foremost experts on organised crime will meet to discuss emerging trends at the Global Forum for Law Enforcement and National Security. One of Italy's top anti-Mafia magistrates says Albanian gangsters are taking control of organised crime on both sides of the Adriatic. One of Italy's top prosecutors, Cataldo Motta, who has identified Albania's most dangerous mobsters, says they are a threat to Western society. "Albanian organised crime has become a point of reference for all criminal activity today," he says. "Everything passes via the Albanians. The road for drugs and arms and people, meaning illegal immigrants destined for Europe, is in Albanian hands." When the prosecutor leaves his office, three police bodyguards are at his side because of the risk of assassination by Albanian gangsters. Albanian gangs quickly branched out from ferrying their countrymen across the Adriatic. They became one of the main conduits for illegal immigrants trying to slip into Europe. Today, even Chinese immigrants travel through Albania after being flown to Moscow and bused to Vllore. Ten years ago, few people knew anything about Albania. Today, its gangsters have become so notorious for violence they give even Italian mobsters pause. In the north of Italy, the Albanians have taken the prostitution racket away from the country's toughest Mafia branch, 'Ndrangheta. In the south, they control the drugs, guns, prostitution and human smuggling across the Adriatic and have forced an alliance with the local Mafia group. Even priests who work with women sold into sexual slavery must travel with bodyguards for fear the Albanian kidnappers will take revenge. Now Italian investigators suspect a flood of cocaine into the country may be the result of Albanian criminals working in the United States, a connection being probed by Italian police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations. "The Albanian mafia is especially violent," said Cataldo Motta, a Mafia prosecutor in the province of Puglia in southern Italy. "We know how to fight against the Mafia, but now we have a new one -- and it is a foreign culture we don't understand." Ironically, this is also the view of Italians on the other side of the law. "I hate Albanians. Their criminals have become rich and we've become poor. They have a lot of money because they work with girls and drugs," a cigarette smuggler told the National Post. "We have only one document from the DIA [Italy's anti-Mafia agency] about the Albanian mafia," said Michele Emiliano, the Mafia prosecutor who first uncovered and prosecuted the Sacra Corona Unita. "Both the Mafia and Albanians are violent but at least the Mafia has some rules. The Albanians don't care about life at all, they'll kill you without reason." The Albanian mob also has the advantage of being able to blackmail fellow Albanian migrants around the world. "The Albanian mafia has a huge capacity to expand itself. Many times decent Albanians are obliged to help the Albanian mafia," Mr. Emiliano said. "If there are no other Albanian criminals in the country, they ask for help from law-abiding Albanians and put pressure on their relatives at home, who have little or no police protection. " The Albanian mafia grew out of the country's decade-long collapse. Though they started as groups of low-level hoods and smugglers, they have developed into sophisticated -- and little understood --organizations that have profited from globalization, like their counterparts in Eastern Europe and South America, with whom they are closely connected. In the mid 1990s, the Albanian mafia even brought over cocaine- growing experts from Colombia to help introduce the crop to Albania, which already produces heroin and marijuana. In 2001, Frederik Durda, an Albanian cartel who recently failed in an attempt to deliver 8 tons of liquid cocaine from Colombia to Albania. Investigators already have pictures of Durda riding in private helicopters, and near mansions and pure-bred horses in Colombia. On the other hand, starting June 19, 1999, four Colombians successively paid visits to Albania. According to evidence procured by the investigators, Durda established contact with the heads of one of the strongest cocaine clans in Colombia. He promised he would manage the tons of narcotics arriving from Columbia in Venezuela, and then in Spain. Albanian drug lords spread out throughout Europe and with them came their networks. The end of the conflict in Kosovo sparked the emergence of the Albanian crime lords as one of the major players in the international drug trade. The United States had also inadvertently created these organizations as they allied themselves with KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army). The former freedom fighters emerged in the mid 90's as nothing more than Europe's most powerfull drug cartel. Albanian Mafia was known to start with 15 families (today 34). These families had essentially been smuggling contraband for hundred of years. When Albania was in a state of anarchy, the 15 families became the local powers. Each of these 15 families is clan based and maintains their own private armies. These armies evolved to form the KLA, which is a direct offshoot or organized crime enforcement operations. Similar to Colombia's AUC or the Los Pepes organization, which was a paramilitary wing of the Cali Cartel. The 15 families grew wealthy. They were doing $2 billion dollars a year in heroin by 2000 and now it is estimated $170 billion including all criminal activities by Albanian organized crime. The 15 families grew to become so powerfull that today fully 90% of Europe's heroin travels through Albania. Many European heroin addicts refer to the product as the "Albanian lady" or "Albanka". What the Mexican drug cartels are for the North American cocaine trade, the Albanian cartels are for the European trade. They are the UPS of the drug underworld. Both the Mafia and the Russian Mayfia relied on the Albanians for their supply on heroin. With their newfound funds the Albanians began to purchase banks. Albanian smugglers accumulated a massive influx of cash from the sale of weapons, drugs, people and tabacco products. They quickly discovered they needed to launder their money. With Kosovo and Albania in state of anarchy these groups had little trouble becoming involved in the banking system. This made them the brokers of the underworld. They could now launder the ill-gotten gains of their Russian and Italian business partners, for a price. This obviously proved to be extremely lucrative for these organizations. Albania today is in the merge of a "building boom". Every 20 story building or luxcurious investment in Albania today is believed to be somehow connected with laundering money from Albanian organized crime groups in Diaspora. In fact so much that former prime minister of Albania Fatos Nano was cought in a contrabant scandal with Italian 'ndrangheta including prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi. Fatos Nano, the former leader of the Albanian Socialist Party and a former prime minister, escaped from the prison where he had been held since 1993. The Socialist Party, which had promised to reimburse savers who had been swindled, won 101 seats out of 165. Rexhep Mejdani succeeded Mr Berisha as president and Mr Nano again became prime minister which was overpowered in 2005 by the former president Sali Berisha, Albania's today prime minister, a person whom Mr.Nano bloodly battled for almost 20 years feuding to lead the biggest democratic politican leader assasinated(Azem Hajdari). After his assassination, for which Berisha blamed the Socialist Party of Albania and its leaders (Nano points out to as of Berisha had made the plot), there were several demonstrations, some of them violent. No one was convicted of Hajdari's murder, although many people were eventually fingered as having participated in his assassination. Many of these suspects were in turn assassinated or killed under different circumstances. In 1997 the government has singularly failed to tackle the problems of law and order, corruption, economic recovery and democracy. Sixteen people were shot dead in the five days from 10 to 14 April, and another 22 wounded in gun attacks. Armed robbers are stripping the country bare. Nehat Koula, a gangleader charged with killing a policeman, was acquitted on grounds of "self-defence". He had been Mr Nano’s protector in prison. Zani, the mafia chief who provided bodyguards for the Italian prime minister during his visit to the city of Vlora, has been in prison for nine months, but his mother is received officially by senior members of the government. Organised crime and the government are locked in a struggle for control of southern Albania, where the interests of local SP leaders and those of the gangleaders are closely intertwined. Year 2007. One of the most powerfull boss of the original 15 families, Daut Kadriovski, Europe's most powerfull cartel remains at large and it is believed to work through several bussinesses in the New York City and Philadelphia areas. In 1985 he escaped from a prison in Germany and yet remains a fugative. Recently law enforcement broke an Albanian organization in New York City and believed to be one of the 6th families there. Rudaj Crime Family extorted money from other Italian-American mafia families. Federal prosecutors issued racketeering charges against 22 people associated with an immigrant Albanian crime family called the Rudaj Organization. Alex Rudaj is the alleged boss of the Albanian mafia's Rudaj Organization, based in the New York City metro area. Alex Rudaj, and 21 other reputed gang members charged in the indictment. Kelley's office said it believes the indictment is the first federal racketeering case in the United States against an alleged organized crime enterprise run by Albanians. It should be noted that several of the defendants indicted in the case are not Albanian - the organization has soldiers that are Greek, Arab and Italian - but most of the defendants in the case were either native Albanians or first-generation Albanian-Americans. During a bail hearing for one of the two dozen people arrested in the case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Treanor said that the Albanian mob had taken over the operations of the Lucchese family in Astoria, Queens. Rudaj lead an attack in August 2001 on two members of the Lucchese crime family who ran a gambling racket inside a Greek social club. Prosecutors said that Rudaj and his friend Colotti broke off from the Gambinos after Phil Loscalzo died in the early 1990s. Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Gruenstein said their goal was "to become one day, they hoped, a sixth family." The NY Daily News said: federal prosecutors are claiming the Gambinos and the Lucheses - among the most bloodthirsty crime families the city has ever known - are just a bunch of pansies... "The Gambino crime family simply could not stand in the way of the Rudaj organization, and the Rudaj organization took great pride in that," prosecutor Benjamin Gruenstein said. They also pushed the Lucchese crime family out of Astoria, Queens, prosecutors said, taking over gambling clubs the Luccheses had run for years. "What we have here might be considered a sixth crime family," after the five Mafia organizations — Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese — said Fred Snelling, head of the FBI's criminal division in New York. According to evidence at trial, armed members of the Rudaj Organization met with members of the Gambino crime family, led by Arnold Squitieri, at a gas station in New Jersey for a standoff, and Dedaj pointed a gun at the gas pumps and threatened to blow everyone up. FBI has recently announced that ethnic Albanian gangs are replacing the Italian La Cosa Nostra mafia. During the 1970s Albanian expatriates in the US were actively recruited as couriers, transporters or assassins for the Italian Mafia. The efficiency and brutality with which these members conducted these criminal affairs got them to advance within the Mafia network, so much so, that by 1996 the main assassins for the Gambino crime family were ethnic Albanians. Gambino's Sammy Bull Brovano's go-to "clipper", for example, was an ethnic Albanian, Zef Mustafa, whose notoriety for murder and racket was exceeded only by his love of alcohol: drunk from dawn, in a 1996-02 span this Albanian organized a $19 million internet heist, was let out on a $5 million bond and has since disappeared from the US. Albanian mafia in United States operates with extreme violence. Even fellow mobsters are afraid to do business with the Albanian gangs. Speaking anonymously for Philadelphia's City Paper a member of the "Kielbasa Posse", an ethnic Polish mob group, declared in 2002 that Poles are willing to do business with "just about anybody. Dominicans. Blacks. Italians. Asian street gangs. Russians. But they won't go near the Albanian mob. The Albanians are too violent and too unpredictable." While FBI concurs with the brutality assessment, the difficulty in obtaining operational intelligence on the Albanian mafia, and any convictions, may be multifold. Dusan Janjic, Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations in Serbia, cites three reasons for the success of the Albanian criminal gangs: "Firstly they speak a language that few people [sic] understand. Secondly, its internal organization is based on family ties, breeding solidarity and safety. Thirdly there is the code of silence and it is perfectly normal for somebody to die if he violates the code." Another case of one of the most powerfull original 15 families happens to be with a leader of Albanian crime gang arrested in Turkey . Alfred Shkurti, leader of the "Aldo Bare" crime gang family. Shkurti's gang operated out of Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania, trafficking drugs to Western Europe, according to Albanian Interior Minister Sokol Olldashi. Albanian prosecutors say Shkurti, who also goes by the name Aldo Bare, was behind more than 15 murders and several hijackings, as well as the destruction of property and the desecration graves. In 1997, Shkurti killed and decapitated the alleged killer of his brother, showing off the head of his victim in his hometown of Lushnja, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the capital, Tirana, according to Olldashi. Olldashi said Shkurti used fake Macedonian passports to move in and out of Albania. Albanian organized crime groups have in house money laundering system and political connections that most criminal organizations only dream about. They are also among underworld's most connected outfits and majority of their bosses and operatives remain unknown to law enforcement. The 34 families today are beginning to become the most powerfull criminal organizations you have never heard about. body

I read that, By Saviano.I also heard that as well,That they tend to use Italian names. Supposedly, They say that they control huge Prostitution,Drug rings in Belgium and are extremely intertwined with Italian and Sicilian OC

"Albanian Organized Crime controls 55% of the world's heroin trade and 47% of arm smuggling."

Biggest bunch of BS I've ever read. I stopped reading after that sentence.

55% ??? I don't know where they got that number either ? Just over half the worlds Dope ? I read another article,I'll try finding it again,An FBI report posted and written for a CNN site that said they controlled 20-25% and it was within like 3 years of that little article so they somehow managed to shoot up another 30% ??? BS

Aboslutely! Statisics about those crimes are just guessing...

Well the obvious strength of albanians in europe are the familiy ties. They stay close together and have big families and archaic traditons and most men are very violent. Their mentaliy is their greatest strength, they kinda are 30 years behind the modern wolrd in their heads thats why they are so violent. Imagine the fucking sicilians from the 60s invading NY. They didnt know any rules...neither do these guys but they keep closer familiy ties then the italians. And they have a bad reputation for selling drugs and stabing guys. Well they will learn the hard way then and in 2 generations they will be as soft as the italians now. In the new world nowadays you need more brains than killers anyways and they didnt get that yet. Theres some serious jail time incoming for lots of albanian gangsters in the western world. In our city hamburg germany there were some big wars in the 90s where those guys threw grenades and shit...well one particular Familiy won Everything ans got rich big time. Osmani is the name. There are several stories about them how they cooperated with the german version of the cia in the jugoslawia war and shit like that. Afterwards they became white collar and made even more money. So there are some clever guys but most are just brutal street thugs who sell drugs and woman.

Kosovo Police and US DEA partner in drug trafficking arrests
GAZETAEXPRESS
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 17:37 00
As a result of a 3-month investigation conducted by the Kosovo Police with cooperation of the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have arrested ten people – 4 in Kosovo and 6 in New York, suspected of organised crime, Kosovo Police have announced.
"Following a 3-month investigation, the Kosovo Police Division Against Organised Crime, namely Directory of the Investigation on Trafficking in Narcotics, in cooperation with the U.S. DEA have carried out three police operations. The investigations have been conducted in close cooperation with the US officers simultaneously in both countries. Two operations have been carried out in Kosovo (Peja region) and one in New York,” it is stated in the press release issued by the KP.

According to the KP the first operation was carried out on 18 June 2017, whereas the second operation on 27 June 2017 in the town of Klina. “The operation ended with the arrest of four people in Kosovo and six other people in New York. The police have confiscated weapons and other material evidence,” it is stated in the press release.