Over the past decade, Albanian crime groups have overtaken all rivals to become some of the most crucial players in global drug trafficking. These criminal networks from a tiny European country have revolutionized the international cocaine business. Reports emerged that the European cocaine market had surpassed us in value for the first time. A relatively new type of trafficker has primarily supplied this decade-long explosion in European coke habits. The highly successful organized crime groups are drawn from Albanian communities all over the continent. Albania is a small country with a population of under 3 million. For decades, it was ruled by a brutal authoritarian communist regime which is part of the reason it's now become so prominent in international organized crime. Thro
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