https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0w4e4e00jo
Apr 8, 2025 — He was recruited by a corrupt counternarcotics police officer to work for the Albanian mafia, one of Europe's most prolific cocaine trafficking ...Read more
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/how-have-albanian-networks-come-to-dominate-cocaine-trafficking-to-europe/
Oct 11, 2025 — The operation had been orchestrated by an Albanian organized crime network with the capacity to move such vast quantities of the drug that it ...Read more
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/internationally-active-albanian-organised-crime-network-busted-10-arrests
Aug 12, 2025 — Major takedown of organised crime network engaged in cocaine trafficking comes as yet another result of Europol-coordinated Sky ECC data ...Read more
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime
Jan 13, 2019 — The gang, an Albanian street crew of drug dealers, is known locally for its violence and more widely for a social media output featuring ...Read more
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/37-members-and-associates-international-ethnic-albanian-organized-crime-group
Jan 24, 2025 — Thirty-seven members and associates of an international ethnic-Albanian organized crime group were arrested for trafficking cocaine, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_mafia
The terms Albanian mafia and Albanian organized crime (Albanian: Mafia shqiptare) refer collectively to criminal organizations based in Albania or composed ...Read more
https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/en-albanian-mafia-uk-cocaine-supply/
Mar 3, 2022 — Albanian mafia manages to carve out a prominent place in the UK criminal landscape in the supply of cocaine to other crime syndicates in the country.Read more
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/international-cocaine-network-based-in-albania-and-italy-dismantled
Nov 27, 2025 — A five-year investigation has led to the arrest of 24 members of an international drug-trafficking network, Eurojust said Thursday.Read more
https://www.coe.int/fr/web/corruption/anti-corruption-digest-february-2018/-/asset_publisher/BBjexTPLQPK5/content/unprecedented-seizure-of-cocaine-in-albania
Unprecedented seizure of cocaine in Albania. Albanian police seized 613 kilos of cocaine hidden in a container of bananas that arrived in the country from ...
https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/crackdown-cocaine-trafficking-south-america-italy-and-albania
Nov 6, 2024 — In total, 29 suspects belonging to an Albanian-led criminal network were arrested in Italy and Albania. Simultaneously, locations were searched ...Read more
https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2021/english/ocindex_profile_albania_2021.pdf
Albanian criminal actors are allegedly responsible for a large number of trafficking victims detected in Western Europe. Albania is also a destination country.Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/28/cocaine-consumption-soars-europe-asia/
Dec 28, 2024 — ... Albania, to document the rise of Albanian traffickers in the booming cocaine trade. Nadège Mazars photographed in Colombia and Ilir Tsouko ...Read more
https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/how-british-cocaine-users-are-funding-albanias-mini-dubai-9sqknlcks?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfQKPcU5Not18LVYJ-VMWyUJU8qw7ukgenvqb3TEmZF1AvrrRNS7y6X&gaa_ts=694d68f9&gaa_sig=8RdRsmmgSsq0SGvFm1u6czTj6gHgc4V9qZP7QjNNg-imld1FzlBm3YL03kQxRCb7XIdV-3QV0U96h3lVs_v1zw%3D%3D
Mar 16, 2024 — Count the cranes and the Albanian capital looks like it's booming. But billions in 'dark money' sent back by gangs controlling Europe's ...
https://citizens.al/en/2017/08/09/shqiptaret-te-uritur-per-kokaine-dhe-kanabis/
Aug 9, 2017 — Two in 40 Albanians have tried marijuana at least once and one in 40 Albanians has tried cocaine. For every adult person in Macedonia who has tried hashish at ...R
https://www.narcononeurope.dk/en/blog/albanias-struggle-with-cocaine-addiction.html
Sep 23, 2021 — Though it has made some headlines in American and European media, few have gotten the real story on cocaine addiction and the spread of drug ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/18/the-rapid-downfall-of-albanias-most-feared-drug-gang/
Aug 18, 2025 — Masterminded by its ringleaders Franc Çopja, 33, and Ervis Cela, 41, the Albanian gang smuggled billions of pounds worth of cocaine from Latin ...Read more
https://see.globalinitiative.net/hotspots/drugs/country/albania
Substance, Quantity, Price/€, Information by, Region/Hotspots, Year. Cannabis, 0.8 - 1.2 g, €4, Police, 2021. Cannabis, 10 g, €27.90, Police, 2021.Read more
https://www.balkanweb.com/en/harta-e-unodc-shqiperia-me-perdorimin-me-te-larte-te-kokaines-ne-bote/
In the world, the largest users of hashish are in the United States of America, with an annual prevalence of 16.5%, and Canada with 14.3%. Albania has a low use ...Read more