Following our findings over the Verviers criminal organization and information gathered by other federal police services, we found that the Albanian mafia covers the whole of the country and continues its development.
From our criminal core we have found that thru telephone
or physical contacts other similar cores are settled elsewhere in the country.
An analysis of those various contacts makes clearly appear a network, forming
the frame of a criminal organization at an upper level. The phone-tapping reveals
existing contacts between our Verviers and Mons group with:
· Albanian groups from Liège, working in organized car - jacking
and
prostitution;
· Albanian groups from Brussels involved in
prostitution, THB and organized goods- jacking in the trucks on the highway's
parking (a real plague over the highway network of our country and the neighbouring
countries);
· Albanian groups from Antwerp and Limburg,
working in prostitution, THB and organized thefts;
· An Albanian group from Namur specialized
in organized thefts and stolen goods keeping.
Investigation reveals a partnership between Albanian
girls procurer from Limburg and Sami who resell girls acquired in Germany.
For this expending operation Sami has bought an establishment (a pseudo Albanian-Kosovar
cultural association) located in Huy and managed by an Albanian from Liège.
Another feature of our investigation has been the
appearance of core - persons, found in almost all the files. These persons are
still actually camouflaged behind non-identified handy numbers but there is
no doubt about their role in the structure of an expanding mafia.
The planning of the criminal activities of this mafia is also confirmed. The
following through of the burglary phenomenon reveals that the dividing up of
territory between the various criminal groups is planned or reached by tacit
agreements. Two groups seldom operate at the same time, in the same branch,
on the same territory. When a group is caught by the cops, it is replaced a
few weeks later by an other group to take over this territory's activities.
This dividing up of activities and territories is not always made gently: as
usual and classically for a mafia, violent settlements between Albanians in
the big cities of Brussels, Antwerp and Liège show a conflicting repartition
of the action's zones or the businesses.
More important is information about meetings of the criminal core's bosses at
which the territories are not only divided up but also often sold.
The whole of the here accounted information indicates
that the Albanian mafia is well and good settled in Belgium: little organized
at the beginning, all the pieces of information show that it is structuring
always more to insure a settlement and an increased power over the organized
criminality in Belgium.