Albanian Mafia Drug ring 37 Arrested NY1

Federal law enforcement authorities on Wednesday charged 37 individuals in connection with an international drug-trafficking ring led by ethnic Albanians, whose operations are said to have netted more than $500 million during an 11-year run across three continents.

The majority of the accused syndicate members were arrested early Wednesday in New York, New Jersey, Colorado and Florida, according to law enforcement officials. Several others were arrested earlier this month in connection with a drug-related shooting, and others are already in prison on related offenses. One of the accused ringleaders, Arif Kurti, was previously arrested in Albania on heroin trafficking charges. The U.S. is requesting his extradition.

According to court documents, the accused individuals are members of several interrelated Albanian family clans, known as fis. The syndicate's members included hundreds of members, associates, workers and customers who helped arrange for the importation and distribution of massive quantities of marijuana, cocaine, oxycodone and other illegal drugs across the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe, operating from 1999 until last month, officials said.

The group used a professional money-laundering organization in Canada to wash more than $15 million in drug profits, officials said. Federal officials are seeking a total of more than $500 million in what they say are ill-gotten gains reaped from the syndicate during its run.

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[geokonti]

@NHusic83 - by your comment I see you are the one who had no real job and yet doesn't have and will spend his entire life commenting on YT about shit he has no idea. And you come up to me and tell me you made thousands of dollars by picking smth up and dropping smth off??? and it is EASY??? hahaha In my country we say "The dog who barks doesn't bite".

[NHusic83]

@geokonti wow, you must have never had a real job, or sold a drug in your life. trust me i made thousands of dollars in a day just by dropping something off and picking something up, its EASY. whats hard is keeping it up, and staying in the game without people trying to step in and on you. real hard work is 9-5. say whatever stupid comment you want next, it wont make you right.

[geokonti]

@NHusic83 - you are crazy and stupid!!! They risk their lives and freedom and you're telling me that its a lot easier job??? Get out and do this "easy" smartass!!!

[NHusic83]

@Orthodoxynjay serbs were committing genocide. not killing terrorists. serbs were the terrorists.

[NHusic83]

@geokonti its a lot easier than working 9 hours a day 6 days a week.

[geokonti]

@NHusic83 - oh really??? You think it is just an easy buck???? lol

[fistful0fst33l]

@TheIllyrianWarrior88 fuckin albo stfu

[fistful0fst33l]

@TheIllyrianWarrior88 ...

[TheIllyrianWarrior88]

Blame the junkies not just the drug dealers cause they keep them at work.

[Elllphi]

@NHusic83 a country has to get there drugs some how, so there mafia's for that