How Albania's Mafias Took Over Europe (and more)

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The "Mafia Shqiptare" was forged during communism, exploded into life during a nationwide pyramid scheme, and unleashed a wave of drugs and violence across Europe from the late 90s. We dive into its most notorious bosses - and how gangs including the 'Hellbanianz' have taken over the UK's lucrative drug scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.1	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're
0:18.0	here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:25.0	Barclay's here for the land of football.
0:30.0	July in 1997 in the Albanian village of Lushnya
0:36.0	there's been a heated phone call between two of its most feared gangsters
0:40.0	and groups of men are heading to one of the village's best known bars.
0:43.4	One of the men, a dark-haired former Special Forces officer named Alfred Skirti,
0:48.0	opens fire from his car with some of his accomplices.
0:50.9	His rival, Arter Ahmad Daya, is ready, and he fires on the approaching car.
0:57.0	Daya's right-hand man drops in the gunfight, one of Skirti's men also dies, then Ramadan, Skirti's brother, is killed. He pulls out. In Albania, a country
1:07.2	of honor, blood feuds in the infamous canoe. Daya has another trick up his sleeve. He doesn't let his rival pick up the bodies of his brother and henchman, a huge middle finger.
1:17.0	The sleight will fuel a bitter fight for revenge that will make Skirti, also known as Professor, Albania's most wanted man,
1:25.0	and one of Europe's most ruthless crime bosses.
1:28.0	In the middle of a pyramid scheme that will become a civil war,
1:31.0	the bar shootout will be ground zero in the making of what's now called the Albania
1:34.8	mafia, the mafia schip tardy, and it's got crews in the Bronx to Beijing.
1:40.7	Welcome to the Underworld Podcast. Yes, we are back after a little break.
1:45.0	Yes, we are back after a little break.
1:51.0	Thank you guys for coming back back to listen this is the
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