Albanian mafia
The so-called Albanian Mafia is a transnational criminal network and is part of organized crime .
actors
The so-called Albanian Mafia recruits its members regardless of nationality , but they are predominantly ethnic Albanians. The relatives are Albanians , Kosovar Albanians , members of Albanian minorities from Macedonia and Montenegro , as well as ethnic Albanians who have emigrated to the EU countries , Switzerland and the USA .
Emergence
Until 1985, criminally organized Albanians often worked as henchmen for the Cosa Nostra . After the collapse of the Pizza Connection , the " gap in the market " was partly filled by these Albanians. From around 1990 the Albanian Mafia was referred to as an independent organization. At this point she began to eliminate criminal structures in Europe and to take over their fields of activity. The development was driven by the collapse of socialism in Albania in 1992, when the country sank into chaos and many citizens took the opportunity to emigrate . When war broke out in Yugoslavia in 1991 , the Balkan route shifted to Albania. The trade embargo against the FR of Yugoslavia encouraged the smuggling of fuel and other goods, which then also ran through Albania. This strengthened the criminal structures that had emerged.
organization
The lowest, executive level are the basic cells, the members mostly come from the same family. The leadership has called the Kryetar held. The middle level is the clan level, which consists of up to 100 people, the leadership position here is held by the Krye . Then comes the highest level, the leadership council, at the head of which is a kind of godfather.
Business areas
The organization is active in all the usual business areas of organized crime.
See also
- Organization Rudaj (Organization of the Albanian Mafia in the USA)
literature
- Nina Florack: Transnational Criminal and Terrorist Networks. A comparison of the network structure of the Albanian Mafia with the Jemaah Islamiyah (= secret intelligence services. 5). Köster, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89574-740-3 (also: Münster, University, dissertation, 2009).
- Roberto Saviano : Gomorrah. Journey to the realm of the Camorra (= German 2015). Translated from the Italian by Friederike Hausmann and Rita Seuss. 11th edition. dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-423-34529-3 .
Web links
- MEN OF PURPOSE: THE GROWTH OF ALBANIAN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. by GUS XHUDO published in English in the journal Transnational organized crime