Concerning the phenomenon of the Kosovan mafia

• Main Author: Ćirić Jovan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2006-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: Albanian mafia; "OVK"; drugs; terrorism; collaboration with bin-Laden; silence of the truth in the world
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2006/0085-63200601033C.pdf
• ISSN: 0085-6320; 2560-4880

The theme of Kosovan mafia is a theme about which much is written and carefully scrutinized in the world. A great number of independent analysts from abroad suggests that it represents one of the most successful, highly organized and most dangerous mafias in the world. This is the pivotal theme of this article. The author presents here an entire range of articles and analyses which appear using the principal theme of Albanian mafia in foreign, west-European and American newspapers as well as in expert magazines. The author points out that a whole cross section of high ranking international officials, from representatives of the OECD, UN, the ex-ombudsman for Kosovo up to officials from international organizations such as "Interpol", "Europol", or individual police-experts from the countries of the EU, i.e. the U.S.A. talk completely openly about the fact that Kosovo has become a lawless country almost practically under mafia rule. Hundreds, even thousands of narratives which can be found on the "Internet" concerning this theme, and to which the author alludes, indicate that around 40% of heroin traded in the European markets and the U.S.A. originate from the Albanian mafia in Kosovo, who has used that revenue to finance the acquisition of weapons for the "OVK" ("Kosovo Liberation Army"), an organization which precisely due to those activities was at that time on the black lists of both the American State Department and the American Agency for the fight against drugs ("DEA" / Drug Enforcement Agency). However, all those factors did not prevent political figures from the U.S.A. and Europe to neglect all that very rapidly by aligning themselves on the side of that very same "OVK", an organization for which they also had sufficient and reliable proof that it collaborates very closely with many terrorist organizations, above all with those under the leadership of Usama bin-Laden. The essence concerns non-principled alliances with the narco-mafia and terrorists. Because of that the author insists upon two very important questions in this text. The first question is whether the Kosovan mafia was instrumental in causing the war in 1999 or if that war gave rise to the mafia, respectively the second question is if it can be determined that nowadays the mafia controls, with its tarnished money, the biggest part of political main streams within the modern world. The author also determines that danger from further expansion of the Albanian mafia and the overflow of crime to the surrounding countries of the region is very realistic and that those issues should be some of the more important themes upon which the Serbian party should insist in relation to the negotiations concerning the status of Kosovo.