Albanian gangs are believed to dominate the UK's illicit cocaine trade, said to be worth £5bn a year, a position they ...

Ecuadorians vote Sunday for the country's next president as drug-related cartel and mafia violence run rampant. 'Iron fist' ...

QUITO (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean anti-corruption court sentenced eight people to over 17 years in prison and sanctioned three companies for their role in a money laundering scheme linked to the ...

QUITO (Reuters) -An Ecuadorean anti-corruption court sentenced eight people to prison and sanctioned three companies for their role in a money laundering scheme linked to the Albanian mafia, the ...

Criminal gangs are said to pose an "acute" threat to the UK while Albanian criminal gangs leaders carry out horrific and ...

Incumbent President Daniel Noboa and his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez crisscrossed their equator-hugging Andean nation, ...

The case involved a money laundering operation linked to the Albanian mafia, with assets amounting to $43.4 million laundered through drug networks. This image is AI-generated and does not depict any ...

Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa moved quickly to impose the rule of law immediately after his surprise election victory in 2023. In the short-term, ...

In 2006, he transferred to the New York Field Office to investigate Albanian organized crime. Fomby also worked major drug-trafficking, organized crime, and public corruption investigations and was an ...

Dan O'Mahoney, then the UK's Channel Clandestine Threat Commander, warned MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2023 about the extensive reach of Albanian criminal networks. "There is a huge ...