The Coalition for Peace and Justice Advocates, COPJA, has called on the political class to ensure the presidential seat is rotated round the six geo-political zones of the country, rather than ...

Some five-euro bills with handwritten notes turned out to be the key that unlocked a massive money laundering operation moving tens of millions of euros through cryptocurrency networks between Spain ...

AN Albanian drug kingpin has become the first con sent back home as part of a £4million jail swap deal. Klodjan Copja, 36, will serve the rest of his 17-year term in an Albanian jail, saving UK ...

Copja had been arrested in Belgium in Dec 2023 and is on trial for murder after being extradited from his mansion in Dubai. He is considered the logistical brain behind the operation, securing the ...

Court documents detail claims of how an alleged drug boss living in Dubai laundered money in his native Albania, helping to fuel a rapid rise in real estate prices. In September 2020, Klajdi Merkaj ...

Klodjan Copja ran a £150million racket by flooding London and the South East with cocaine. Detectives from five forces spent three years investigating Copja, who tried to stay one step ahead of law ...

Investigators have documented the use of foreign exchange offices in Albania to move drug money, either in crypto or via a centuries-old, trust-based system called Hawala. The area is known as Dollari ...

Copja spent four years on the run before he was caught on the Greece-Albania border AN Albanian drug kingpin has become the first con sent back home as part of a £4million jail swap deal. Klodjan ...