Kurti praised: The year 2022 was a year of fighting organised crime and corruption

He, through a Facebook post, said that during the following year, the government has continued to implement legitimacy throughout the country.

According to him, 854 police operations against organised crime and smuggling were conducted, 3202 people were arrested, of whom 301 public officials, closed 16 illegal roads in the country's north.

Kurti wrote that during 2022, 69 criminal groups were destroyed and confiscated over 1.8 tonnes of narcotics.

We destroyed five drug labs in northern Kosovo, worth hundreds of millions in substances and equipment, as well as 3 labs for the production of cryptova peaces, in the north as well. Over 14m euros are frozen under suspicion of misuse and money laundering; Over 300 thousand liters of fuel that were non-conform with sub-legal acts”, Kurti wrote.

He also said they built four police facilities and stations in northern Kosovo, as well as made the extension of the optic network in that part of the country, enabling, according to him, the extension of telephone waves, internet networks and radio-connection communication.

“We created the Kosovo Police Fast Border Intervention Unit, which engages in combating smuggling, trafficking with human beings, and other abuses along the” border, Kurti added.