Number of Kosovars engaged in organised crime in Germany increases

Early in the week, it ended in Neu-Umm, a town in Bavari, a trial against a group of Albanians. The charge was for assistance in the illegal trade in narcotics in relatively low quantities. The accused had entered on the night of December 14th, 2019 at a fruit storage depot in Neu-Umm to get 500kg of drugs stored in banana boxes. The prosecution knew that Ecuador's cocaine had been located through Rotterdam and had previously changed narcotics into imitations.

At the moment when the Albanians entered for it „brought” of drugs, police seized them. The trial gave the six defendants sentences of 6 to 7 years, disclosed by a press release by the Land Court in Memmingen. Prosecutor Markus Schroth told DW that the accused were generally persons from poor families who had participated in action from the need for income.

Neu-ulm's case is not rare. Two months before Albanians were caught in question, they were sentenced in Landshut on the same charge of five other Albanians in one of Germany's biggest cocaine court processes. The amount of cocaine thus seized in banana boxes from Ecuador to Hamburg for distribution in Germany's styroonies was over two tons. In the case of Landshut, and in the case of Neu-ulm, the accused's bank were only assistants. Crime heads remain undiscovered.

Seconds After Germans

Illegal drug trade, mainly import of cocaine from Ecuador, and distribution across Germany, and to some extent the production of cannabis constituted 93% of the activity of Albanian organised crime in Germany, the Federal Crime Institute (BKA) notes, in the annual mirror of organised crime, which was published last week.

Other areas of organised crime activity in Albania are property crimes and forged documents. Albanians even in 2019 continue to top the list of participating in organised crime structures. Of the 202 groups identified for drug trafficking, in 2019, 29 were dominated by Albanians. The number of Albanian groups active in the drug trade in 2019 was thus ranked second on the BKA list, behind Germans with 66.

13.5 million rounds

Statistics of the Federal Criminals Ent are mentioned only cases seized by police. As Organised Crime BKA considers the crime that meets one of three conditions a) uses business structures, b) uses threats or violence as a way of intimated C) has influence on politics, media, administration, justice or the economy.

Compared to 2018, in 2019 the organized crime of Albanians generally turns to growth. Although the number of organised crime suspects has remained the same as in 2018 - 244. Last year, federal authorities have placed 146 young Albanian citizens, caught in the framework of criminal organisations on their lists. „The same sequence of suspected persons is coincidence,”, a BKA spokeswoman told DW.

Revenues from organised crime with Albanian citizenship in 2019 have doubled, as highlighted by the BKA's annual mirrors for organised crime for the respective years. Thus, while in 2018, the Albanian grouping has been over six million euros, in 2019 we have an increase of over 13.5m euros. The 2019 drug - owned tour was a total of 46.4 millicine Euros.

The Third for Organised Crime

According to BKA's annual report, in 2019, a total of 31 organized crime groups dominated by citizens of Albanian citizenship, 29 of which, in the drug trade. Albanian citizenship thus takes third place, behind Germans with 171 groupings and Turks with 78 groupings. A little lower on the list of the ten most frequent organised crime nationalities in Germany are Kosovars with 14 groupings, after Poles, Italians, Russians. The last on the list are Serbs, with 13 groupings.

Even the number of Kosovars suspected of criminal acts of organised crime has increased to 198. (In 2018 it was 182.) In 2019, 48 young people were caught. The revenue film from the Kosovo organised crime activity has been under 1m euros. Crime fields have been counterfeiting, drug dealing, theft and black work. / DW