The Albanian mafia moved some 350 kilogrammes of cocaine from South America in a truck that was seized near Brescia north of ...

Police raids on many of the properties linked to the Albanian drugs trade, in an effort to locate the escapees, uncovered industrial-scale cannabis farmsCredit: Alamy Three days after the Yarl's ...

A court in the Balkan nation of Albania has released the country's former president and prime minister ... MARX: Last night, protests against the current government reached a violent peak during ...

A FORMER law student who flooded the UK with Class A drugs and murdered two police officers has been extradited to Albania. Notorious gangster Dritan Rexhepi - dubbed the "King of Cocaine" - had ...

Turkish authorities extradited an Albanian drug trafficking kingpin to Albania, police said Wednesday, nearly a year after he was taken into custody in Istanbul following a spate of earlier arrests ...

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Albanian law enforcement accused the suspect "of being the head of a powerful criminal group in charge of drug trafficking between South America and Europe", according to the police press release.