Germany

22.January 2025 Srećko Matić (DW)

You order a pizza, you get cocaine

Croatian Stipe R. thought for a long time about what he could offer to customers and then it occurred to him that it should be "something completely different, something they don't know". Along with pizza, he also sold them cocaine. Now his trial begins in Düsseldorf

Politics and organized crime

17.September 2024 JH

"Spiegel": Albania as Eddie Rama's private narco-state

The West is courting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, while his opponents accuse him of turning Albania into a drug state, corrupt to the core, writes the German weekly "Spiegel".

Bosnia and Herzegovina

23.April 2024. CSR

In the international action, 23 people were arrested in the Sarajevo area

Among those arrested are high-ranking officials of police agencies and law enforcement institutions who are suspected of criminal offenses of organized crime, money laundering, receiving bribes and other forms of benefit, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, and abuse of official position or authority.

What do the US sanctions against Alexander Vulin say

20.July 2023 Philip Schwarm

In the new issue: The man who makes Serbia blush

There is hardly a worse disqualification for a country than declaring the head of the security service to be a drug dealer. Namely, the question arises as to what its president, government, police, judiciary are like... Why does the world's biggest power dump in their faces what it thinks of them in this way? Or, if there are already accusations of involvement in crime and corruption, why has the problem not been quietly resolved through diplomatic channels? The statement of the American ambassador in Belgrade that the USA will continue cooperation with other institutions of Serbia cannot hide the confusion. The case of the BIA director is a serious humiliation of the country, its authorities, and citizens