Interview: Cocaine trade in the Balkans

Interview Ioannis Michaletos*

7 Dec 2008

The state of Montenegro filed an application to join the EU, on Monday the 15th of December, a process that will inevitably be associated with issues concerning security in the state and organized crime, as it has been pointed out numerously by the international authorities and press.

The following text derives from an interview to the Daily Montenegrin newspaper "DAN", in Podgoritsa and the Editor Marko Vesovic (Published 16/12/2008)

1. What is you information on the link between money laundering and serious forms of organized crime in Montenegro?

ANSWER

First of all we have reports made by international organizations, such as the annual EUROPOL report or the regional reports by the UN office in Vienna and the State Department’s reports that verify on the existence of money laundering operations and organized crime presence. Moreover newspaper articles from reliable editions, such as the Italian La Stampa, or the Der Spiegel in Germany, plus countless of other information coming from the Balkan media and unofficial talks in conferences and international meetings.

In general there is a unanimous assessment that Montenegro is being used as a base for m.................

more see: http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3246

Link in the Montenigrin language: http://www.dan.cg.yu/?nivo=3&rubrika=Vijest%20dana&datum=2008-12-16&clanak=168304

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