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The connections of Dritan Rexhepi and Albanian organizations with foreign mafias are revealed, DailyMail: Europe, the world's cocaine superpower

2023-10-05 12:08:02Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The connections of Dritan Rexhepi and Albanian organizations with foreign mafias
Dritan Rexhepi

The British tabloid " DailyMail" explained in detail how Europe has turned into the world capital of cocaine trafficking.

The article emphasizes that the whole story started with Pablo Escobar, the boss of the ruthless Medellin cartel, the man through whom 80% of the world's cocaine once passed, the first and most notorious of the drug billionaires.

But unlike the South American cartels of the past, today's bosses are likely to come from Italy, such as the Ndrangheta and Camorra mafia families; The Balkans, including Grupa America or the Tito and Dino Cartel; and Ireland, as is the case with Clans Kinahan and Hutch.

But the Dailymail article also mentions the Albanian Dritan Rexhepi, where it is emphasized that he acted as an intermediary on behalf of two Albanian criminal organizations.

UN researchers warn that smugglers are increasingly using semi- and fully submersible vehicles that can be controlled remotely and can carry hundreds of kilograms of drugs each. They also warn that packages of cocaine are now being attached to the bottom of container ships by such a craft, possibly without the crew even knowing.

As the technology develops and becomes more widely available, it is sure to present new challenges for officers trying to stem the tide. The cocaine trade has come a long way since Escobar, but it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon, and Europe is now at its dark heart.

The connections of Dritan Rexhepi and Albanian organizations with foreign mafias

"The Bello Company is known as a network of criminal organizations led by 'capo' Dritan Rexhepi, an ethnic Albanian, who was arrested in 2020 in coordinated raids in Europe and the Middle East. Italian prosecutors said Rexhepi had access to 'endless amounts of cocaine' while Europol said the raid was 'the largest of its kind ever against Albanian-speaking organized crime'. Closer to home, lucrative cocaine profits are believed to have fueled a vicious gang war in Ireland that has left at least 18 dead since it erupted in 2015 and led to dozens of arrests.

The Hutch-Kinahan feud saw 10 people, mostly from the Hutch clan, killed in a single year, including a raid by gunmen at Dublin's Regency Hotel in 2016. The Kinahans are known associates of the Camorra family and are believed to be heavily involved in the drug trade and have been linked to the tanker seized in Ireland this week. Officials say they are satisfied the Kinahans had a hand in the racket. A Joint Task Force destroyed the ship on Tuesday in a daring special forces raid. The elite Army Ranger wing attacked the Panama-registered vessel off the south-east coast of Ireland after the vessel refused orders to stop.

Once commandos secured the ship, members of the Irish Navy and the National Drugs and Organized Crime Bureau (DOCB) boarded, where they found 2,253kg of cocaine, which could be worth up to £430m. While the Kinahans and an Albanian-led consortium are believed to be among twenty European criminal groups involved in the smuggling operation, the cocaine itself is believed to originate from the feared Colombian Gulf clan, or Clan del Golfo. The clan has a fearsome reputation for violence, has established international links with other criminal groups, including the Albanian mafia, and is thought to supply up to 70 percent of the world's cocaine. The del Golfo clan is so powerful, in fact, that the US government has designated it as one of the top 5 transnational organized crime groups in the world.


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