Not only in Sky Ecc and Encro Chat, but Albanians have also coordinated criminal activity in the ' Ghost ' application that was destroyed by the Australian authorities, in an operation led by the FBI.
According to data published by the media, organized crime in Albania had close ties with the Italian mafia, but also with exponents in Canada.
An Italian mob boss, Giovanni Parlangeli was jailed after the Ghost app was cracked.
He was arrested in a house in Lecce, a province in Southeast Italy, while at the time of the raid he tried to escape from the police forces.
According to the Sunday World media, the Albanian criminal groups had close ties with the Italian mafia, which was part of the mafia group "Sacra Corona Unita", which is known as the fourth and most powerful mafia in Italy after the Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra.
Parlangeli, 43, had been on the hunt since 2023, while also appearing in Ghost's deconstructed conversations.
He is one of dozens of people arrested, while his capture has been described by European police as "very important" and "fundamental" to the fight against drug trafficking on the continent.
According to the media, in recent years, the " Sacra Corona Unita" mafia , to which Parlangeli is a member, has established strong ties with criminal organizations in Albania involved in drug trafficking in Europe.
The mafia group is believed to be using Albania as a distribution point to traffic drugs to Central Europe.
Also, Albanian criminal groups appear in another episode.
From the analyzed conversations, it appears that a 36-year-old man from Victoria, Canada, who was handcuffed during the Kraken operation, in cooperation with exponents of crime in Albania, has trafficked a quantity of cannabis worth 1.2 million dollars .
The crackdown on the Ghost app led to a crackdown on criminal groups and dozens of arrests, 51 in Australia, 11 in Ireland, one in Canada and Italian mobster Parlangeli linked to the Sacra Corona Unit mafia.
The latter was wanted since May 2023, after the Court of Lecce had imposed a prison sentence against him, for a fine of 60 thousand euros against a local entrepreneur.