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Artan Hoxha reveals strong Iran-Albania ties in heroin trafficking
2026-04-02 22:30:27 / AKTUALITET
Journalist Artan Hoxha stated this evening that Iranian drug trafficking groups have created strong ties over the years with several Albanian criminal groups, including those in Shijak and Tirana.
Invited to the show, Opinion, Hoxha stated that the Quds Unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has operated in Albania using cultural and criminal connections to create terrain in its favor.
"Concrete acts have occurred in Albania, in which the intelligence services and the Revolutionary Guard services have tried to create situations in Albania in their favor," he said.
One of the unit's members, captured in Albania in 2011, was a key figure linking heroin trafficking with Albanian criminal activities and the interests of Iranian secret services.
"It was headed by a member of the Quds unit of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran and in Albania he had operated in a very strange way, using both these cultural connections, but also heroin trafficking connections. And one of the members of this unit had been captured in Albania in 2011, and had very strong connections with the Shijak groups, with the Tirana groups," said Hoxha, adding that the person in question, being a very important person in trafficking connections, had created ground with the Quds unit.
"Iran is known to be one of the most important branches of heroin trafficking. And they, using this branch, entered Albania and had very strong connections. This person, when we re-discovered him, because he left, when the Quds cell was discovered, was one of the important characters who mixed the Albanian crime world with the interests of the Iranian secret service," said Hoxha.
He added that yesterday's warning from the US Embassy about attacks on Albania by Iran "is not just a routine warning."
The journalist added that Albania has alerted anti-terror structures, including the Police and the Intelligence Service, and has analyzed lists of persons who may have links to Iranian interests.
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