Pablo Escobar of the Balkans without a trace

Netherlands is flooded with Albanian criminals here dealing with trafficking in cocaine, marijuana, weapons and people.

Only in April, the police arrested in Amsterdam three fugitive criminals. One had been sentenced in Italy to a prison sentence of twenty years, another was wanted by the Belgian police. In December, two Albanians were shot in Amsterdam.

One of the most powerful Albanian criminal organizations operating in our country, the Belgian and Greek police shared a big tick in recent weeks. It is a gang that has ramifications across Europe and would gros glands in the trade of coke and weed which earned hundreds of millions of euros.

Greek police shows the Albanian Klemend Balili as the big man behind this organization, which has a firm foot in the Netherlands and Belgium. According to the Federal Police in Belgium have the clan, which this month eighteen members were garre ted, across Europe on transport companies that provide distribution of the drugs in special compartments of trucks.

In this perspective, is the background of Balili interesting. The man who is defined in Greece and Albania as the "Pablo Escobar of the Balkans", the Colombian drug giant, a top official in the field of transport. Because he has appeared in major police investigation, Balili is removed from office.

Greece asked to hear the alleged ringleader of the criminal organization, but received from representatives of the Albanian police that they could not arrest him because of his political connections. Now the man, write Albanian and Greek media, without a trace. Balili was already caught in 2006 for smuggling 750 kilos of cannabis.

Corruption is Albania immensely. Despite the corruption got the land in 2014 or the status of candidate for membership of the European Union. Who thinks that the country should be stabbing more energy in the fight against corruption.

In 2014, the police besieged the village Lazarat. A village that drove the production and trafficking of cannabis and the Italian police had a turnover of 4.5 billion euros. Of the 400 serious criminals on the wanted list is almost one third from Albania.

The commotion in Albania is now large. Is the "Pablo Escobar of the Balkans' a hand held over the head by his warm contacts within the police and politics? Chances are that his name and photo soon popping up on the Interpol list.

By Editorial Telegraaf.nl/ Mick van Wely