Albanian coke kings lose 12 tons 🇦🇱

Never before have you seen so much coke in one place. More than 12 tons of cocaine bricks were seized from the most powerful drug barons in Europe - that’s Albanian narcos, also called the Balkan cartel. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with details on the operations that not only captured 12 tons of South American cocaine, but also 20 of the people alleged to be behind it.
The enormous haul arrived from South America in two shipments. The largest of the seizures weighed more than 8 tons, equivalent to 7.5 metric tonnes, packed in the center of shipping pallets and surrounded by frozen tuna. The businessman accused in this caper has companies registered in the province of A Coruña. The company’s name is Spanish for Blue Sea. More like white tide. Police say it was likely planned to feed the increased demand for cocaine over the Christmas and New Years holidays.
It landed in the Port of Algeciras at the mouth of the Strait of Gibraltar, and then shipped to Vigo, in Spain’s northwest, aboard a cargo ship registered in Liberia. The containers were then hauled 90 miles north by truck, to an industrial warehouse in Cambre.
The smaller of the two seizures announced this week - almost four tons, or 3.5 metric tonnes - arrived at Spain’s eastern port of Valencia. And although less than half the size, in some ways it’s more interesting. The cocaine was hidden in secret compartments specially built into shipping containers. It was moved to a warehouse in Xirivella. The gangsters were cautious. Cops raided the warehouse, the restaurant, and stopped circling counter-surveillance vehicles.
The cocaine originated in Colombia and likely packed for Europe at Guayaquil, a port in Ecuador. Most of those arrested are Albanians, police say. There were also a few Spaniards, a Colombian and a Dominican.
Police say the Balkan gangs, Albanians first among them, are the cocaine kings of Europe, now.
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Love your videos, as usual. I got some stories that might interest the mob reporter: In the neighbouring village of Landgraaf, Nederland one guy was arrested for 11.5 tons of cocaine in November 2020, about 5km from where I live. This year about 3km from my house this other guy was arrested where they had a picture from SKY ECC with 400kg of cocaine but after a shooting with columbians they only found 47 kg of cocaine, 30 kg of hash and 6 handgrenades. I live in a really lovely neighbourhood, just some call it "smugglers paradise". Keep up the great work. Greetings from the Netherlands,

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⁠​⁠@@raylopez99Landgraaf and Rotterdam for Dutch standards are like Florida and New York. The drugs came from Antwerp, which is just as rotten as Rotterdam.

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@@squiresmith58 My last post with the link will not show, just google the first paragraph and you will find the article: Justitie heeft een foto van 400 kilo coke in de loods van Arie W, de eigenaar van een transportbedrijf in Landgraaf die vastzit op verdenking van grootschalige drugshandel, gevonden. Dat blijkt uit vertrouwelijke informatie uit het rechercheonderzoek waar ZO-NWS over beschikt.

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Anyone knowing what the trade is about knows that if they bust 8 tons here, there was a shipment 5 or 6 times bigger getting in "unnoticed" a few docks away. The thing is that the authorities (or some very powerful individuals within) are accomplices. Yup! That's the World we are living in folks

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[@TheWinayyy]

The shipment had a value of 300,000,000$ (12,000 kilo x 25,000) which is a crazy amount for any organized crime group to lose. That is insane and just puts into perspective how much money these criminals make. Great video.

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[@johnson5725]

300M? A kilo of coke is prob like 77k , after cuts you can make up to 200k. Where you buy a kilo of coke for 25k would like to know that you need to be very close to the source probably the second man that gets it for thousands.

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That shipment alone cost about 1 Billion and I’m not even counting the trouble they had in shipments and making it that’s a lot more.

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Fuck, in australia 1 kilo about $200k. Wholesale, probly $125k-$150k, but still, big big money

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You do understand who controls cocain trail in balkans? Probably not. Do you know who controls Kosovo? Once you figure this last question you’ll know who’s the cocaine is

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This is the most beautiful seizure I’ve ever seen. It’s a work of art.

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Meanwhile they have another 50tons underway wich has passed customs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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​@@user-vd4bu7vw3r they seized 110 tons in antwerp so that means some drug lord in mexico probably has 100 times that amount.

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Cokes yellow ish well the real stuff is

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For ecery 1 they find, 100 get through. The war on drugs cannot be won. It's like trying to hold back the tide.....

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But honestly speaking it wasn't designed to win, it was by design to do exactly what it's doing. It let's the hamster wheel continue spinning.

[@bobhoward6676]

This always happens when police want to justify a budget increase or a politician doesn't receive campaign contributions. States, counties, cities, police, courts and others make more by letting it be sold and then busting single users to collect jail fees, court fines, probation fees, counseling costs, asset forfeiture, adding ppl to a database and more. After investigating years now they know the tree leaves come from, who picked it, transported, processed, packaged, smuggled, sold, shipped, warehoused, cut, resold to who and who knows who knows who is related to who is friends with who, ect. ect.

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They even sell it themselves.

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I love people who don't understand this is clearly a planned seizure. They throw 12 tons to the government and still pass 100 through.

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I compare it to ants harvesting the 'honey ' off of aphids.

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[@JoeRogansForehead]

The frozen tuna was chosen because frozen foods have to be moved off of the port asap because they need to stay frozen. I feel like frozen goods would have a higher priority . And that let them sit the port and see is super smart if you think about it . If it wasn’t a special secret operation it would’ve been opened up after like a week . Like if it had been some random local cops I doubt they would’ve sat on it for a whole month .

[@TheMobReporter]

That too. Fresh fruit too.

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​@@TheMobReporterSo its not about smell you see

[@TheMobReporter]

It can be about more than one thing, though. If it was strictly about speed of transport, fresh fruit is top pick. Because frozen food can be kept in refrigeration, but nothing stops bananas rotting.

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@@TheMobReporter yea fresh fruit . I think I saw in one of your videos actually they were hiding the “goods” in avocados or maybe tomatoes . Idk how they did it but they looked real and were packed with product . All I was trying to say was that like a shipment of TVs or radios could theoretically sit forever where as any food would have atleast some time limit it could sit .

[@Thumper68]

@@JoeRogansForeheadnot really electronics value drop quickly because of better newer models released constantly and anything with capacitors go bad overtime as well of course. Also if it’s not climate controlled pcb boards get oxidation and damage from moisture etc.

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Lol, why even censor the orange Hapag-Lloyd containers? It's not that hard to recognize.

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Great coverage!

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Bro, live within your means. Nobody needs this much money...

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Greed is a sickness and this is one of its symptoms.

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Nothing artificial here. (Except for the foreign language dubs.)

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This guys going to be really mad when it turns out all that coke magically "disappeared" after the cops got it.

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Bang on mate, the cops will sell it same as the criminals do.

[@johnson5725]

@@kazbah1217I don’t believe they sell it but they can use it yes for trades and baits.

[@antinsanwo]

They will probably sell it back to a cartel 😂

[@gfreeman9843]

Maybe that's a reason the price doesn't change??a lot of it goes back into the market??​@@kazbah1217

[@rootofevil777]

Tuna def went to waste. Reason being ‘possible’ contamination. I don’t know what happened, I ate tuna and haven’t slept in a week; and my jaw will not stop moving 😂

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Amazing Video 🤙

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Great as always, would love to find out more about the recent historic bust in Budapest!

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if you have a link?

[@C-24-Brandan]

Drop in the bucket , probably already have a replacement shipment on route if it hasnt already been delivered. As big as this seizure is, its not affecting the market or what is getting through at all lol

[@craigpetties1476]

There were also 16 tons seized at the Port of Philadelphia in 2019. Back then Sito Minanco was the boss of the galicians

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God damn MR the wordplay has me rolling in this one. Great video. Happy holidays to you and yours!!!

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Have a good holiday, TfromC.

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The Best as always Mr Mob A specially After Sky ecc Albanians are appearing everywhere on Shipments Will let you tell us about it 😅

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That’s a lot of synthetic happiness

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Police clearly relied on an informant for such specific information.

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Thanks, Trav, it's a happy milestone for me. Merry Christmas to you as well.

[@MetsanAsukas]

It’s incredible. The amount that makes it through sure. How about how many people are doing it? How many noses order this amount of blow. You’d think it’d just become legalized.

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I had no idea Europe has such an appetite for drugs, excellent video, very informative!

[@Kuriosskatoulis]

It has always been but nowadays its getting hotter cause of tourism every period of the year

[@JoeRogansForehead]

Moving the stuff without owning it is probably a better deal than having to move the stuff yourself . When it goes well you made a ton of cash for just bringing in a shipment without all the extra heat that trying to distribute tons of cocaine brings . Remember George from the movie blow , he got like a grand or something for every kilo he flew in. I’m sure these guys are doing something similar . So just imagine how much they make when the succefully bring in an 8 ton load. Once it’s brought in and offloaded it’s not uour problem anymore . No worrying about selling to undercover or setting up distribution rings . Just bring it in , hand it off and get paid .

[@labinotdoda1517]

Im Albanian but never seen drugs on my life just in tv and people they consider me danger and criminal

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Thank you for this, P. I return hope for a good holiday to you as well.

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