SPAK provided official information today after the operation carried out the day before that ended with the arrest of several people, members of a criminal cocaine trafficking group.
The narcotics were transported from Latin American countries, Colombia and Ecuador, through containers and arrived on European coasts, in Belgian and Dutch ports.
"This structured criminal group operated through a sophisticated organization mainly in trafficking cocaine from Latin America to some of the countries of the European Union as well as to Great Britain. The narcotics came mainly from Santa Marta (Colombia) or Ecuador and was transported by sea containers to major ports such as Antwerp (Belgium), Rotterdam (Netherlands), or by land to France and through the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom. In some cases, cargoes were also unloaded in the ports of Italy and Spain", SPAK emphasizes.
According to the prosecutors of the case, Altin Dumani and Adnan Xholi speak of a preparation of an unusual level of Albanian criminal groups which already have the ability to control international drug markets.
"The organizational structure of this criminal group, with coverage on several continents and with 16 members identified so far, proves the high level of sophistication of Albanian criminal groups, their capabilities and extension in international criminal markets."