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26.01.2009,13:42 - The arms trade between the Camorra and Sigurimi
With the opening of the files of the communist regime, are brought to light and published documents that show the relationships between the twenty-year Neapolitan Camorra and the Sigurimi. They ran together the traffic of arms military weapons against armored vehicles and automatic weapons suited to urban warfare. Relations with the Camorra had a very wide range, as he managed to conceal the sale of weapons around the Mediterranean with cigarette smuggling and human trafficking.


With the opening of secret files of Communism, are beginning to come to light the first shocking development background of the Mafia in the Mediterranean, and their lawyers with the secret services of the States. The first secret documents about the existence of strong links between the security forces of the communist regime and the Albanian mafia in Naples, which lasted for more than 20 years. The files reveal how it was trafficked media products and anti-tank and automatic weapons for urban warfare, but also what happened to the loot obtained from the trades and how they were organized banking transactions for money laundering. Authentic documents show that the Neapolitan Camorra and collaborative security for the traffic of military equipment, weapons against armored vehicles (anti-tank missiles) and automatic weapons suited to urban warfare, ie the so-called people's war of partisan towns. Trafficking in arms certainly led to a new escalation of relations between the Sigurimi and the Camorra, which began in the mid-60s, and stops after the mysterious suicide of Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, to continue until autumn 1991, two weeks before the arrival of the contingent of the mission "Pelikan" in Albania.

the end of 1983, the interruption of Chinese aid five years earlier, was causing serious problems for the financial coffers of the Communist dictatorship, that to ensure the stability of the Albanian currency, the activities taken by the Security increasingly obscure, having been convicted the maximum penalty under international law. She made her way, so the link with the Italian mafia in Naples, built and managed in order to obtain sufficient funds from arms trafficking. Each operation was covered with code phrases of propaganda, like "The defense of the homeland is a duty on every duty," "Combat, think and work like we're surrounded." For direct contact needed with the Camorra of real negotiations, and therefore was given the job to one of the representatives of Security, the former driver of the Embassy of Albania in the United Arab Republic (UAR), sent to 'on foreign policy `s Journal B. Angjeli top party, and with the authorization of the organization of PPSH (Party of Labour of Albania `). Representing the Camorra had Michele Zaza, former partner of State Security, known throughout the Mediterranean basin such as the smuggling of a number of "blondes", as they were called in Naples smuggled cigarettes. The meeting took place in a small villa in Posillipo, which the Italian authorities were to knowledge until several years later, thanks to some statements' approximate the repentant Pasquale Galasso, the area of \u200b\u200bVesuvius. The chief investigator of the DIA (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate) of Salerno, Leonidas Primicerio, described these contacts as very problematic, which could be reported to the Italian intelligence services.

Under the agreements, the export transactions of goods would be ensured on the Italian side, while the transport would take place either by means Italians, Albanians and those, such as the means of high-warping Fleet export vessels Fleet Sales and diplomatic bags. One of the bosses of the Camorra, with home Safe at Herstal, Liege, Belgium, on the street "Rue Grand Puits 23", ensured the sale of firearms produced by Albania with a technical quality almost identical to the Belgian automatic weapons factories and machinery Czech, Chinese and Swedish (Bofors) . Of the progress of negotiations, would report to the Heads of State Security, an agent code named "Bibi", sending a message from the headquarters of the company "Soko mar" in Switzerland, which was then received by the company "Albtrans, which covering the operations of transnational smuggling organized by state. Were used for communications equipment interconnection Telex, then avant-garde. These means of transmission, production "Sagem", were important to national currencies by the General Directorate of Albanian Railways, which served as a legal import.

Negotiations of `business of automatic weapons and antitank missiles, were discussed in secret by the highest levels of State Security and the Ministry of Defence, informing Ramiz Alia, Prokop Murra and Hekuran Isai. The same Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Zylyftar Ramiz, in March 1984, issued a warrant, written by hand, the procedures and prices for the import of automatic weapons and missiles. The guidelines were sent by telex in Italy, and the heads of the Camorra concluded the transaction. Not But the tests were found to have been informed also Enver Hoxha, whose state of health was much worse, in the period in which these sales were made. Preliminary negotiations are fully substantiated by documentation and correspondence of the time, showing how it was organized in all aspects - such as price, payment method, shipping cost, quantity, the `packaging, and measures of secrecy - of the importance of 9 mm with automatic weapons and anti-tank missiles with a range of 900 yards (800 meters) and a penetrating power of 300 mm. The representatives of the Camorra, after inspections of factories secret military Cekin, Polican and Artillery Factory, offered to the State Security their four experienced, highly qualified, to monitor the production of weapons in Albania. The Albanian forces had to produce up to 200 thousand in 3-4 years, the Albanian army is destined for export. At that time, the arsenal of the Albanian Armed Forces were only 250 000 AK-47 (Kalashnikov) of Russian, Chinese and Albanian. The first contingents of automatic weapons and various types of missiles ready for use, also equipped with optical sights, arrived in Albania from the brewery in Belgium.

So, rather than serve to defend the socialist fatherland, shipments of weapons were used to enrich the arsenals of the Camorra, to sell to the neighboring country through the channels of smuggling blue hull. This quantity of arms, shortly after the incident with the family `Popa, came to Naples, and were stored in a building next to the Campo Santo di Poggio Reale, in" Cry of Santa Maria ", before being transferred to the filing of a ' engineering workshop in the area of \u200b\u200bAfragola. It is important to note that profits from the sale of weapons, were used for the `high-communist nomenklatura and the strengthening of the dictatorship of the proletariat. A portion of hard currency was used to transform into the armored "Mercedes" of Ramiz Alia and Adil Carcani, and to purchase a "Range Rover". The company in charge of the armored of the trucks was German, while the payments took place through a Swiss bank. With the same amount of currency in Sweden were purchased equipment for the detection of radiation, called "dosimeters" or "Gayger counter. Thanks to the mediation of the companies controlled by the Camorra, the English coins were purchased, night-sticks (rubber batons), shock Granadian (grenades that hurt but not kill) and aggressive chemicals such as "incapacitating" (which remove the ability to react). This arsenal was given included the police and Albanian, with instructions for their use against crowds of demonstrators.

The missiles were instead trafficked to Palestine, and in particular the Group sold by George Habash, a Lebanese village linked to local leader Walid Jumblad. On the contrary, the machine guns of counterfeit Cekin of Gramsh (Albania) were sold to terrorists in Northern Ireland, the bodies of the Ulster Defence Regiment, on the outskirts of the city of East Londonderry. The British NCIS (National Criminal Investigation Service) followed the traces of weapons to achieve a high truck warping Albanian, who arrived in England in the period between the two countries in which there were still reports, diplomats to import goods for comfort account of an Albanian state company, with headquarters at "4 Shkurti "in Tirana.
Relations with the Camorra had, therefore, a range much wider than a simple operation of "organized crime", as was studied in detail and was able to conceal the sale of weapons around the Mediterranean with the traffic cigarettes and human beings. This leaves hardly suspect that the Camorra and the Albanian Sigurimi have acted alone, and that in fact they were part of a widespread criminal network, which has been at the same intelligence deflected many western states.

Alketa Alibali