Report identifies Hashim Thaci as 'big fish' in organised crime

The Guardian ^ | Monday 24 January 2011 | Paul Lewis

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Report identifies Hashim Thaci as 'big fish' in organised crime

Kosovo's prime minister accused of criminal connections in secret Nato documents leaked to the Guardian

Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaçi, has been identified as one of the "biggest fish" in organised crime in his country, according to western military intelligence reports leaked to the Guardian.

The Nato documents, which are marked "Secret", indicate that the US and other western powers backing Kosovo's government have had extensive knowledge of its criminal connections for several years.

They also identify another senior ruling politician in Kosovo as having links to the Albanian mafia, stating that he exerts considerable control over Thaçi, a former guerrilla leader.

Marked "USA KFOR", they provide detailed information about organised criminal networks in Kosovo based on reports by western intelligence agencies and informants. The geographical spread of Kosovo's criminal gangs is set out, alongside details of alleged familial and business links.

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[Seruzawa]

Pretty shocking that a high level politician would be connected to organized crime. /s

[JerseyHighlander]

People on FR have been posting articles about Thaci and his entourage in Pristina since several weeks before the Rambouliet agreement talks...

That was over a decade ago.

Everyone in a position of power and influence in the Kosovo abomination has known full well who runs the Kosovar side of the Albanian crime families since before George W Bush was a primary candidate.

On top of that, there has been consistent reports of European and North American NATO/UN contractors working alongside the Thaci mafia to bilk US/European taxpayers and transfer drugs and sex slaves..... dozens and dozens of reports, with the EUropean elites jailing and blacklisting the whistleblowers consistently for a decade.

Now you have that little tweety bird, Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg going on a faux crusade to further cover the tracks of the NATO military establishment, Bulgarian state police, and German intelligence apparatus in the region.

The situation is so dire and has so little chance of improvement I gave up giving a damn about it...