Kosovo, five other states, this is the Balkan organised crime corridor

The Global Anti-Organised Crime Initiative in the six Western Balkan countries has published the report on the functioning of criminal groups controlling a corridor that is used for trafficking in human beings, drugs, arms, cigarettes, cars, etc. You will be able to read this report in two consecutives in the newspaper “Voice”, where it speaks of criminal groups in the country, as well as five other Balkan states.

Criminal groups in the Western Balkans control a corridor that is used for trafficking in human beings, drugs, weapons, cigarettes, cars, as well as other goods. So says the report released yesterday in Vienna, Austria, by the Global Anti-Organised Crime Initiative in six countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and Serbia), which also owns the paper “Zri”.

Mark Shaw, director of the Global Initiative (GI), pointed out in this case that the report analyses illegal activities in border areas, major cities, coastal cities, as well as transport knots where highways cross.

Although the report does not particularly stop on the movement of smuggled goods, during the study it becomes known that an up-to-date list of illegal contradictions in the Balkan corridors has been created, and the points and factors of violence in the region have been identified, reports the newspaper “Zer”.

The fact that most illegal activities in this region have to do with contradictions coming in or out of European Union countries” has made Shaw aware, adding that the EU has the potential and responsibility to exert sufficient pressure to destroy these illegal markets, reducing the impact of organised crime on Balkan countries and this is in the EU's own interest.

The report, which contains the newspaper “Voice”, also examines problematic areas in the context of a broader crime ecosystem, characterized by clientlism, political security, and in some cases by the capture of the state, where it is suggested that those politicians who play the role of cast nationalists are often responsible for weakening within state sovereignty and are willing to endanger national interests for personal gain.

As for part of the report on Kosovo, it can read a profile for northern Kosovo as a problematic area. Pristina is said to be among the main activities of criminal groups organised in the capital is drug trafficking, the town of Pec reportedly exerted its influence on some political figures in the country, while for Ferizaj's reported city, it is said to be considered a problematic area for drug trafficking, especially cannabis and heroin. “criminal groups operating in this city are said to be involved in trafficking in human beings (for prostitution), lending with very high interest, as well as extortion and blackmail in connection with land ownership”, reported among other things in the Global Anti-Organised Crime Initiative report in six Western Balkan countries.