"The elections close with 50 boxes"/ Artan Hoxha raises doubts: from 2022 no more cocaine has been caught

2024-09-13 07:41:00, Aktualitet CNA

"The elections close with 50 boxes"/ Artan Hoxha raises doubts: from Artan Hoxha spoke on MCN TV about the cocaine traffic where our country often serves as a transit country, expressing surprise that no cocaine has been caught in the port of Durres since 2022!

"The fact that it has not been caught is a big surprise. In 2022, there were 2-3 shipments every month, coming from Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil. It led to a big problem at the port. From November 3, a container of BanaKing went through the scanner, it came out clean, there was information and they entered with dogs, they found that there were 17 kg in two crates. So it seems strange that for two years in a row it has not been caught at the entrance, but only at the exit. Cocaine is not produced here.

We had a case where the container arrived, they took it and took it to the outskirts of Durrës, after two hours they returned it. It was said that a quantity of crates of bananas were missing.

All this, or it has been tightened a lot and the level of security at the port increased, but this would be reflected in the market, but the quantity of cocaine in the domestic market is very high and the quality is good. We talked about those holidays that take place...

So it is very impressive and this is consistent, since in the middle of 2022, an evolution took place, a round in the world of organized crime, immediately comes this other part that has not been caught anymore.

Either they have so sophisticated the ways of entering the country and they have not been able to catch them, or the cooperation has been perfect. There was no shortage of the product, and the price even dropped a lot, almost by 6 thousand euros per kg. Some of the operations are done with partners. It looks like something is limp.

The main roads, in Albania the biggest opportunity is the port. Fortunately, not all of the amount coming in seems to be for the domestic market. Criminal organizations choose the port, in cases where they get bail, because it is much cheaper than Antwerp and Rotterdam.

The product they used, exotic fruits, chicken meat, coal, canned asparagus, in raw material that comes to food industries.

So, since we are still in an election year, some 50 boxes were lost there, they are worse than in '97" - said Hoxha.