-Caveat Lector- The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU "It has never happened in the history that such a small ethnic group shows so much criminal energy in such a short time, the Spiegel comments." ------Begin forward message----------------- Spiegel: Spider's net of the Albanian Mafia in Germany August 08, 1999 Bonn, 8 August, 1999 - During the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, the West received the distorted image on the Albanians. This image has its other side, stresses the Hamburg weekly Spiegel in its analytic article on the spider's net which the Albanian Mafia has developed not only in Germany, but throughout the whole Europe. "Ethnic Albanians" (as the German police officially calls them), no matter where they come from - Albania, Macedonia or Kosovo - created for a very short time in the last decade of the century, a very powerful criminal network, says Manfred Quedzuweit, director of the Police Department for Fighting the Organized Crime in Hamburg. Here, it could be heard that they are even more dangerous than Cosa Nostra. The network is spreading from the Balkans over the eastern Europe, becomes very dense in Greece and Italy, more dense in Switzerland and Germany, and stretches even to Scandinavia. Some branches of this criminal Albanian network even reach Spain, Portugal and the Great Britain, and even more - the United States. It has never happened in the history that such a small ethnic group shows so much criminal energy in such a short time, the Spiegel comments. In the last couple of years, the Albanians literally invaded the West as they found the best place for their illegal business there. In the Great Britain, for example, there were only 30 Albanians living there ten years ago. Now, there are over 30,000 Albanians living in Britain, a thousand times more! There are about 400,000 Albanians in Germany, 200,000 in Switzerland, 100,000 in Italy and even 25,000 in small Belgium. Tribal, patriarchal establishment among the Albanians is one of the most important factors of successful creating the network of the criminal clans. Everybody knows everybody, everyone is controlled where he goes and what he does. Nobody can escape the long hand of Mafia, says Manfred Quedzuweit. The members of the family form the core of a clan (in this case about 60 members of the Albanian family), writes the Spiegel. The average of another 150 relatives are tied to them, as well as their neighbours and friends, sometimes a whole village is a clan. Such a system is ideal for introducing into an organized criminal network, writes the Hamburg weekly. The ethnologist of the University in Berlin Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers says those are the relics of an archaic tribal society, which she and her colleagues call "immoral familiarity". In Germany, the Albanians have completely took over the market of heroin as they banished, in a spectacular fight five years ago, the Turks and Kurds. For a short time, says Manfred Quedzuweit, they covered the market of prostitution where they launch young Albanian girls of 16 and 17 years. "Washing" of illegal money, armed robberies and stealing of jewelry and money from private houses, and organized transportation of white slaves and desperate ones who seek their chance for life in the West, is only a part in their long list of illegal businesses in Germany. Albanian "banks" in Germany are a special story. They are used for the transfer of money from Germany which amounts to a billion of D-marks a year. One of these banks was discovered by accident by the Dusseldorf police when they were checking a travel agency "Eulinda" owned by the Albanians. We haven't found a single catalogue or brochure for travelling at the agency, computers were not operating, nor the printer has been ever used. We found that "Eulinda" was a coverup for some other business, said high criminal counselor from Dusseldorf Rainer Bruckert. Eventually we found out that "Eulinda" had already transferred 150 million dollars to Kosovo - for "humanitarian purposes", says Bruckert. Money has been transferred by the couriers in special waist belts with many pockets. So, in a single one way trip, they can carry up to six million D-marks. We have proofs, says Bruckert, that the money has been transferred under the cover of political parties and humanitarian aid and through fictitious companies, to Kosovo for the purpose of financing the war which KLA is conducting there. Police has lots of difficulties to catch any of those criminals and put them in jail, mostly because people are scared too much to testify, fearing for their own lives and the lives of their families, says Manfred Quedzuweit, who asserts that this fear is without any ground since police has many ways to protect the witnesses. Even the suspects do not feel like talking. The chances to find out anything at the hearing are equal to zero, says Josef Geissdoerfer, director of the Department for Fighting Crime in Munich, adding that brutality in violence and silence is the main power of the Albanian Mafia. Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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[CTRL] Spiegel: Spider's net of the Albanian Mafia in Germany
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:01:50 -0700