"There's a whole mountain of money that needs to be cleaned up," Italian journalist: Here's what the magistrate told me about the Albanian mafia

Italian journalist Nello Trocchia, invited to the show "Oponenca" on News 24, has brought to attention his analysis of Albanian organized crime and its influence on state structures. He recalled the interview with one of the most famous Italian magistrates, Nikola Krateri, today the chief prosecutor in Naples, who has been on the front lines of the fight against the mafia in Calabria.

 " I have interviewed the greatest judges, Nikola Krateri who is the greatest magistrate, today he is a prosecutor, chief prosecutor in Naples and he was very well on the front line against the 'Ndrangheta when he was prosecutor of the Calabria region. I asked Nikola Krateri a simple, yet clear question. In the recent past, let's say the opposition and have they, in other words, defined Albania as a narco-state. I asked him, is this excessive? No. He says that without a doubt this is a critical point from a structural point of view related to the ability of organized crime through the corrupt system to penetrate the public administration sector, but also politics." -  said Nello Trocchia.

According to him, Albania is not a narco-state, but organized crime has created mechanisms to penetrate the administration and politics, using corruption as a means to legalize dirty money. This process of "laundering" criminal capital is a central point that endangers the institutional and economic stability of the country.

 " The crater was saying something, that Albanians started trafficking marijuana and then moved on to heroin and cocaine. It's a whole mountain of money. They have a great need to wash it, to clean it, to clean it, to invest it, and there is a need to be able to corrupt and establish relationships with the public administration so that they can enter the business sectors and in some way the economy can move, to move from the illegal economy to the legal one, and one of the most prominent magistrates has emphasized the fact of the penetration of these structures and this is a central point, " he added.

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