US has a plan to hit Mafia families in Albania

There's been a lot of fuss in Albanian politics, media and society, American Ambassador Donald Lu's statement two days ago. Lu has spoken of four criminal clans and 20 Mafia families controlling criminal operations in Albania.

What would be the US plan for Albania to fight the Mafia families the ambassador has spoken about clearly?

The truth is that there is already an agreement between the US and Albania, whose focus is the crackdown on organised crime. This agreement, under its terms, envisions that the US will provide equipment and experts to fight all forms of crime in Albania. But it doesn't stop. Americans will test the implementation of the agreement and the will of Albanian authorities in the fight against crime, and these will be preconditions for providing financial assistance as well.

“Program for the development of the Criminal Justice Sector will provide assistance to Albania's major criminal justice institutions, anticorruption officials and support agencies to strengthen Albania's capacity to fight all forms of crime, in particular focusing on improving the effectiveness and quality of criminal proceedings and strengthening institutional in this” framework, the agreement said.

The purpose of this agreement with the US is to strengthen the Albanian criminal justice sector, institutions and its officials in order to respond to all kinds of crime, with particular focus on corruption and organised crime...”.

It is known that fighting crime and corruption at the highest levels is one of the most important conditions for EU membership.

The five components of the agreement between the US and Albania are increasing the capacity of prosecutors and investigators to fight organised crimes, corruption and other forms of criminal activities, developing a criminal justice system through improved legislation, assistance for the judiciary, increasing citizens' access to justice, and monitoring judicial reform and monitoring for Veting.

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