Smuggling Busts Further Taint North Macedonia’s Legal Cannabis Industry
New drug seizures cast further doubt over North Macedonia’s ability to keep its medicinal cannabis industry in check. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Major Cocaine Heist Reveals Albanian Links to Swedish Drug Trade
The theft of a shipment of cocaine that was smuggled from Costa Rica to Sweden exposed the role of Albanian criminal groups in the international logistics of the drug trade,…
Record Marijuana Busts Spark Political Rows in North Macedonia, Serbia
Major seizures of drugs in North Macedonia and Serbia – allegedly involving crops grown legally but diverted for trafficking – have raised questions about the medical marijuana industry and caused…
Port-to-Port: How Albanians Conquered the European Cocaine Market
BIRN reporters trace the rise of Albanian crime gangs to the top of the European cocaine trafficking ladder, from remote parts of Paraguay to European Union ports. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Two Convicted of Assassinating Bosnian Police Chief
Bosnia's state court sentences Dalibor Railic and Aleksandar Mijatovic to 29 and 34 years in prison respectively for the murder of police chief Radenko Basic in 2022 in a drug…