"Albania is a transit country for drugs"

Ivanov; Albanian soldiers at risk to becouriers of Afghan heroin

Director of the Federal Agency of the Narcotics Traffic Control of Russia, Viktor Ivanov at a press conference, said that Albania is a transit country for drugs and that in his opinion it is related to the geographical position of our country.

Ivanov said that drugs transiting through Albania and Kosovo are being distributed in other European countries.

According to him there were 375 drug suppliers that distribute drugs in Europe while adding that the danger of drugs lies with the soldiers in Afghanistan.

Albanian soldiers at risk to be couriers of Afghan heroin

Russian anti-drug chief, Ivanov, sends an alarm to our country

Albanian soldiers in Afghanistan at risk of becoming couriers of heroin to Western Europe. The warning was given by the head of the federal service for anti-trafficking of drugs, which asked the Albanian government to make four eyes to this phenomenon. After that there were meetings with Prime Minister of the Interior and the country director of the Federal Service to Control Narcotics Trafficking of Russia, Viktor Ivanov, held a press conference, declaring that Albania risks involved in drug trafficking cartels , that export of heroin from Afghanistan to Europe.

At the press conference, he said that peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan, our country may be tempted to become part of the traffic of between 400 to include Albania narkotrafikut cartels, which supply Europe and Russia. "We are dealing with the phenomenon that the troops already in Afghanistan threaten to become part of drug trafficking, to become messengers of Afghan heroin shipments to Albania. Price of heroin purchased at a thousand dollars in Afghan countries and sold in Europe with 150 thousand dollars, "said Ivanov.