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Ballkan bosses have uncovered that Albanians are taking control of heroin by placing their people in the commodity trade, with new moves to control heroin and cocaine trafficking and to run crime gangs in America. Ballkan bosses have revealed that Albanians are taking control of heroin by placing their people in the commodity trade. Albania has become the center of the Balkan mafia. "Every Albanian gang, including that of Durrës, has to do with a family. They send trusted members into key positions specialized in transportation. In this way they ensure success and create links with consolidated trafficking structures" - this is the statement of a secret report, published yesterday by the American Institute of Peace. Albania, governed from New York, the report on this analysis has drawn public attention, while accusing Albanians of having seized control of the drug trade to the US. According to the American daily "USA Today", which echoes this report, a number of criminal organizations from Albania and the Balkans operate successfully in the international trafficking of heroin and cocaine, controlling a large part of the criminal networks in US cities. According to the report circulated in New York, Albanian traffickers have played a key role in transporting heroin from Turkey and the Middle East to Western Europe and the US. "Tirana"? has been an airport of...? for traffick? and Europe? while the routes that start from the Balkans make Albania an important hub for the passage of drugs. Other countries in the region, especially Macedonia and Kosovo, have also been involved in this network, but according to the report the Albanians have become among the most powerful groups. The report emphasizes that many of them operate on a family and clan basis, which makes it harder for American law-enforcement agencies to penetrate. The article stresses that, besides heroin, Albanians are also active in cocaine trafficking. By exploiting links with Latin American and European networks, they have expanded their activity, benefiting from gaps in international anti-drug coordination.

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