Slovenian police arrested two people and carried out house searches on Thursday as part of an investigation into an armed vigilante group that has made headlines in the small Adriatic... read more →
A Dutch cargo ship flying the Panama flag has been seized in the Italian port of Palermo with 20 tons of hashish on board, with a market value of up... read more →
Spanish national police, coordinating with Europol, have conducted one of the largest anti-drug raids in Europe of recent times, seizing US $ 5.2 million in Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, in... read more →
Spanish Police launched a major crackdown on the Armenian Mafia on Tuesday, in an operation that police say could result in more than 100 arrests from dozens of searches in... read more →
Around 613 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment were discovered in the Albanian port of Durres, in a coordinated operation between the Colombian National Navy, international agencies and... read more →
The European Commission and Albania have signed an agreement allowing the EU’s border and coast guard to operate on the Albanian border to prevent illegal immigration into the bloc. The... read more →
Thousands of opposition protesters in Tirana on Saturday demanded the resignation of the socialist government of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused of collusion with organised crime. "On your behalf,... read more →
The growth of Albanian drug trafficking and the proliferation of cannabis production in the country has earned Albania the nickname the “Columbia of Europe”. Italian authorities have found links between... read more →
In his annual speech on "The State of the European Union", Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for further enlargement of the European Union in the Balkans. This would see countries... read more →
The Ottomans may have long since exited the stage of history but it seems the old smuggling routes that once traversed the Ottoman empire have managed to survive. This according... read more →
