With little hierarchy and a horizontal system,
the structure seems to function with easy efficacy according to its needs and
activities.
Bosses appear without us knowing if they are originally
so or designated among their friends or even self-imposed. In this case, two
brothers (call them Sami and Zakim) are at present the bosses of the criminal
Albanian core in Verviers, also established in the Mons city and the Hainaut
province.
Sami becomes the big boss in Verviers while his
brother Zakim settles in the Mons region before his arrest.
Some members of the central core become fellow accomplices to Sami. While benefiting
of the organization activities they act as a sort of bodyguards.
Others from the "second circle" are used
as cover for addresses, payments, buying or licensing of vehicles; often as
in most criminal organizations, the concubine girls are covering for numerous
deals.
The burglaries, requiring a lot of hands, others from the "second circle"
are used as soldiers. Those suspects are often candidate refugees, recently
arrived, paying in this way the organized clandestine immigration.
Non-Albanians are accepted or at least collaborate mostly for activities related
to the finding of housing, the transfer of prostitutes, the drug trafficking,
the illegal games and the management of the thugs local bars.
The organization, one can say classically, evolves and adapts permanently according
to the opportunities and the external constrains.
To insure anonymity and confuse the trails, the
organization uses a large number of fraudulent means and manoeuvres.
So, the cars of the members and mostly those of the bosses are permanently licensed
with plates under false names or unregistered or camouflaged. This creates a
vast turnaround of vehicles.
Certain types of cars are reserved for the bosses notably the OPEL Calibra (this
was confirmed by our Scandinavian colleagues).
As for its connections, the Albanian criminal core
relies profusely over handy-phones working only with pre-paid cards: those are
renewed once a month or exchanged between thugs making difficult the follow-up
of one suspect's activities. Security measures are drastically increased if
the handies are used during an actual crime.