Albanian Mafia - Prominent Albanian Mafiosi

Prominent Albanian Mafiosi

• Alex Rudaj: The boss of the Albanian Mafia's Rudaj Organization based in the New York City area.
• Zef Mustafa: associate to the gambino family based in new york. He pled guilty to money laundering.
• Gjergj Laçi: Of some informations we have, Gjergj Laçi is a leader of many Albanian mafia organisations, which they are not familiar in public. This group of Gjergj, does many things not in public, they are active in Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Germany, France, Croatia etc.
• Xhevedet "Joe" Lika: Xhevdet Lika was an American-Albanian kingpin who was notorious within the New York criminal underworld. In the Book Contract Killer by Hoffman and Headley, it was noted that even though his is not a name of household familiarity in the American upperworld like "Al Capone" or "John Gotti," Xhevedet "Joe" Lika was known in the international underworld. The book also noted; ""He didn't like Italians and they left him alone because he was so violent. Like Japanese kamikazes, his heavy hitter mobsters would go after John Gotti, Paul Castellano, or even President Reagan, if Lika gave the word. There was no way to stop people like that, and Mafiosi knew it"".
• Princ Dobroshi, One of the biggest heroin kingpins in Europe.
• Alfred Shkurti (also known as Aldo Bare): The boss of one of the most notorious criminal syndicates in Albania known as the “Banda e Lushnjës” (the Lushnja Gang). According to Albanian authorities, “Banda e Lushnjës” is one of the most notorious organized crime group based in Lushnja, Albania which has international operations. According to Albanian authorities,“Banda e Lushnjës”, under Aldo Bare "Leads one of the most important international drug trafficking rings"'
• Ismail Lika: According to the FBI, Ismail Lika was an Albanian mobster active in New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed the "King of the New York drug underworld", Ismail Lika issued a contract on Rudy Giuliani's prosecutors in 1985. Caught with at least $125 million in heroin, Lika issued a $400,000 contract on the prosecutor Alan Cohen and the detective Jack Delemore, both placed under protective custody.
• Lul Berisha: Leader of a notorious clan based in Durrës, Albania. Known as "Banda e Lul Berishes", the clan, by its complex structure is engaged in moving drug and arms trafficking and other criminal activities throughout Europe. According to German and Albanian authorities, the clans international drug and arms trafficking spans to Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy, and Germany.
• Lulzim Krasniqi: Former Albanian Mafia Kingpin based in Zagreb, Croatia. According to the Croatian newspaper (Jutarnji List"), Krasniqi led a powerful Mafia Clan with international operations.
• Naser Xhelili: Coined by Swedish Authorities as the "Albanian Connection" in Sweden, the Xhelili clan operations include drugs and arms trafficking in and around Sweden.
• Osmani Brothers: According to the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) the Osmani brothers as the "most important figures of organized crime in Hamburg and other cities in Germany"
• Myfit (Mike) Dika Former drug kingpin of the “Balkan Criminal Enterprises,”; an international criminal organization which spanned from Canada, the United States, to Europe.
• Kapllan Murat: Belgium's most notorious mobster. He was one of the masterminds behind the kidnapping of former Belgian Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1989. Three days later, the criminals published a note in the leading Brussels newspaper Le Soir, demanding 30 million Belgian francs in ransom. Paul Vanden Boeynants was released (physically unharmed) a month later, on 13 February, when an undisclosed ransom was paid to the perpetrators.
• Gjavit thaqi: Leader of the "Thaci Organization" which is a New York City-based organized crime syndicate. The Thaci Organization controls drug distribution cells in all five boroughs of New York City and Albany. According to the FBI, the Thaci Organization has international operations in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
• John Alite a.k.a. "Johnny Alletto" (born September 30, 1962) is a New York City based Albanian mobster. A former member of the Gambino crime family he was a friend and crew leader for John A. Gotti in the 1980s and 1990s. Following extradition from Brazil in 2006, he was convicted in Tampa, FL of several counts of murder conspiracy, racketeering and other charges stemming from allegedly heading a unit of the Gambino organization in Florida and was sentenced in 2011 to 10 years in prison (of which he had already served six). He was a prosecution witness against former associates, including Gotti and Charles Carneglia, in wide-ranging racketeering trials. While a part of the Gambino organization, because his family is Albanian, not Italian, Alite could not become a made member of the organization.
• Naser Kelmendi: The leader of a Balkan Criminal Empire, as coined by Bosnian authorities. According to a report presented by Interpol, the Kelmendi crime family heads one of the most powerful organized criminal organizations not only in BiH, but in the whole region. The Kelmendi organization has been involved in drug and cigarette trafficking, money laundering and loan sharking.According to the Interpol report, the organization's influence reaches to Montenegro, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Germany and the US. Furthermore, according to the CIA Kalmendi leads one of the strongest ethnic Albanian criminal families in the Balkans. Kelmendi’s organization is believed to traffic in cocaine and heroin, as well as acetic anhydride, a basic ingredient in heroin production.
• Luan Plakici - "Vice King" of the Albanian Mafia in the UK who was jailed for 10 years for trafficking women after promising them good jobs.
• Adrian Hoxhallari is the Boss of the Albanian Mafia in Pogradec
• Kujtim "Timmy" Lika, the "Kingpin" of Toronto's Albanian Mafia was featured on Americas Most Wanted and apprehended in May 2012.
• Baki Sadiki the head of the Albanian Mafia in Slovakia
• Plaurent "Lenti" Dervishaj is a prominent Albanian Mafia member that is being pursued by the FBI in The United States. He is presently listed on the FBI "Most Wanted" list which is known to provide financial rewards to individuals who assist in their capture.
• Dukagjin "Duke" Nikollaj is an Albanian Mafia member that is listed on the FBI Most wanted list for various crimes.