"Vreme" investigates: the European drug market

Balkans work in bulk

Balkan drug cartels have extended their tentacles to Rotterdam, Europe's largest port. In the Netherlands, they cooperate with the infamous Moroccan mafia. Some of that can be seen from the indictments and correspondence on the Sky app. However, "Vremen" sources say that this is only the tip of the iceberg, and that Western investigators do not really believe in the cooperation of their Serbian colleagues.

Ecuador

17January 2024 Jelena Zoric

Metastasis of the mafia game

No country needs organized crime, but every country needs a prosecutor like Ecuador's Diana Salazar. Prosecutor Salazar explains the situation that has turned into almost a civil war between the police and drug gangs in this country with the words: "When corruption and drug trafficking come together, we have a real cancer in society." The internal armed conflict is slowly waning, the prison officers who were taken hostage by the criminals have been released, but this Latin American country is yet to face a long-term struggle with the drug cartels, which, after a decade of corrupting the system, have managed to poison all social pores