Video: Europe's biggest drug smuggler arrested in Macedonia

[Dobre]

It's not unusual that every once in awhile, you get somebody totally unknown operating out of a completely third rate country usually thought to be insignificant when it comes to the big players in global organized crime, but as you can see... That's how the boss of all bosses of the Italian mafia operated and eventually was caught after 40 years residing in some small mountain town in Italy nobody ever heard of. Or coastal, but that's beside the point.

I know it's 'cooler' and more difficult to operate as a drug kingpin out of a big city - but in the end it doesn't come down to image, charisma, reputation or fame - while it might be enjoyable for the little kids to squander the banter about in the urban schoolyard talking about which anti-hero of theirs is the strongest...later on in life, when we become adults, it doesn't matter to the most of us and any normal intelligent person would look down on them and see himself as the real strongman trying to make an honest living in today's world while parasites like them having their little gang of henchmen to stupidly and blindly march into death just for a quick profit.

Even though that would be a soothing and noble thought, and while in some schools of thought it might be regarded as an actual truth, but it's far from reality. It takes more balls, brains and resources to be a mafia boss, let alone a gangster - than those new age Mac User types would want to imagine.

Say, I think all men are born equal in it's philosophical sense, taken away everything else materially. All men might not look alike raised under the exact same conditions due to genetic differences(and that say starting now and not from an alternate timeline that began with this process of genetic purification before humans could become different from one another). Some people are naturally inclined to cheat, steal, kill more than others who are more empathetic and have too many doubts that hinders these abilities, as in born criminals.

But then again, a measure of IQ in it's practical sense is a measure of intelligence but lacks in flexibility since the IQ test is both mathematical and linguistic - and mathematics and language is a cognitive process gained through knowledge and practice - and one can't know the same things or view the world he same way as others - making it unfair - since knowledge is accumulated and people are not born with it. I do believe the IQ test as a concept could go on to be a measurement as how fast a brain is, wired in a superior way, technically how fast a learner somebody is, he possesses all skills as everybody else but has honed them better. Say a sub-category could be added that would fall under the categories of inter and intrapersonal intelligence, as well as mathematical, spatial and especially linguistic intelligence. Relationships with people, knowing one's own place in the criminal organization and one's own capabilities and potential especially in the eyes of others and using it to your advantage, knowing criminal psychology and routines, thought patterns, and considering them a home and feeling comfortable amongst these types, knowing their emotional nature, instability, weaknesses and how the rules of the criminal underworld allows violence in a more casual way than any other facet of humanity or human society and civilization, knowing law enforcement agencies' tactics, limitations/restrictions when it comes to prosecution, a special way with words(how do I convince a conman he's not being conned when that's exactly what I'm trying to do) and that usually involves simple visual or verbal spectacles, psychological tricks, word play, semantics, a routine, and improvisation is key(well street smarts is technically improvisation in life that doesn't have a written manual, accumulated through personal experience, how to deal with difficult people, judging and sizing up your opponent before he strikes), calculating profits, calculating losses in manpower, property, knowing everything about how the black market works, what you could use to your advantage, what works best, what legitimate business to open up asap and would best work as a front to launder the money especially when an illegitimate source of income is under investigation and they're getting close to sniffing something out, how to not let alcohol and the use of drugs effect your rationality when it comes to this vastly psychological and stressful criminal world, every little eye and body movement - a crackle in your tone of voice could be interpreted as a lapse in confidence and it's all the reason vultures would need to strike - since if you lost focus in the game once, you'll lose focus again and you can be made to lose focus with just the right amount of pressure - and right type of pressure at that, depending on variable factors - it can prove fatal. The criminal intelligence.... Just a subset of interpersonal intelligence, involving people, manipulating them to do everything, until you manage to create a vast empire or network, a criminal enterprise that makes billions of dollars a year. In a place where people are shit poor, lack manners, a normal person or an intellectual can easily be destroyed...but these criminals nooo... Now that...is an untold story that deserves a good Hollywood movie.

So, some mafia bosses I know of have an IQ of 200 just like millions of people on the planet, naturally born with it but raised under different conditions and thus a different expression of this intelligence - say a person with a 200 IQ raised in poor conditions, a poor family but is happy go lucky and makes fart humor all the time, has intruiging thoughts but is a burden to have in your physical presence.

Some say... if one of these bosses was sent to New York, for example, to open shop, but that alone - they would be arrested within the first week. I say BS - it would just take them longer to adjust to the system. If their entire organization flooded in...I'm sure any third world mafia boss from the Balkans or Russia could replace the Five Families within months. It's numbers we're talking about here. A base. The Russians didn't win wars against the Italians because they had less in manpower and gunmen.



Old video, his tobacco factory had about 200 employees(he had a ton of other companies too) and a couple dozen people were arrested, but they smuggled a shitload of drugs, ciggies, weapons, alcohol and whatnot and in the raid they seized about 15 tons of counterfeit ciggarettes. Remember the formula for calculating total production and trafficking in quantity: Take a seizure and multiply by at least 20.

He was also married to Hashim Thaci's sister, Hasim is a long time Albanian mafia boss, KLA commander and currently the Prime Minister of Kosovo.

[Dobre]

Scary thing is...he's one of MANY. The REAL bosses DON'T GET ARRESTED. EVER. You can't even find their names anywhere. It's like they're not even bosses. There was an incident when the Macedonian government sent in the special forces to blockade the A1 television station, not letting employees out and not even telling them why they can't go home - because they reported against the current prime minister. The opposition party was basically saying that the prime minister is part of a circle of gangsters who use the government's power for profiteering, and it's not the only case lol, other countries have that going on in 2013 as well, and that he was using the special forces as his own private enforcement and oppression group - kind of like some KGB bosses used entire Spetsnaz divisions to take over entire office buildings in Moscow when perestroika hit.

In the end, through all the deliberate information, misinformation and disinformation, one can't decide what's true. Those are regular people being pushed around, but it turned out all parties were on the same page and they have direct help from outside phantoms(like that unnamed man with his 40 bodyguards that came into the Square cafe one afternoon and we sit there counting them lol).

In the end, it was all theatrics. Imagine the type of power in that a criminal organization now stages such spectacles in order to break away the attention of somebody snooping around or to draw people out.

[Dobre]

I had the liberty of meeting some mafia bosses. Extremely intelligent, very quick responding and moving. Their charisma, their power, all that practice they've put in over the years is overwhelming at first. You feel vibrations you've never felt before, you feel an even Godly or otherworldy presence around them. They will have your head spinning and knock your lights out within moments. I found alot of mannerisms of theirs rubbed off on me for months thereafter even after just a 10-15 minute conversation, they do it as if they were the only ones doing such a movement.

[Dobre]

This was one of the songs played during the rally at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C4%8Dkin_Kamen

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Damn, what a sight. There must've been over 200 police officers and hundreds of soldiers with AK's. I'll never forget that blue barett guy standing beside the prime minister's helicopter the entire time. Motherfucker looked ready to fend off even a Martian invasion. Thousands of his supporters and party members, this was in August 2010. Powerful song. Great theatrics.

[DutchGangster69]

Shouldn't this thread be labeled Macedonias biggest smuggler arrested, not "Europes"

[Dobre]

Shouldn't this thread be labeled Macedonias biggest smuggler arrested, not "Europes"

Youtube video says Europe's biggest smuggler arrested, not Macedonia.

Of course, he's not Europe's biggest drug smuggler, but he would've been in the top list. That term is too wide in order to properly define. There are individuals who organize massive amounts of drug trafficking, yet they don't even compare to what say a group of two, three, four individuals in a partnership, even related by familial links, that control an entire organization or network under their direct influence - traffic. And in most cases, if they're directly involved in the underworld(and not some wealthy elusive figure from the royal courts of the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, whatever who pulls strings and works electronically never to be seen or heard from directly), typically backed by, working for or heading an old fashioned criminal organization, even though the line between what is your traditional mafia and just some shady businessman is growing thinner and thinner as days pass because of the sci fi age we live in.

15 tons of false ciggies is nothing if we're talking in terms of commerce, but it's more than enough to put you away for good. I know of a Bosnian Serb who used to work for the Montreal mob got caught by OPP trying to smuggle out two cartons of that cheap Indian tobacco from Caledonia and he got off with a warning, but said next time he's caught it's 2 years imprisonment minimum. And that's a client, not a dealer.

Bajrush is hardly Macedonia's biggest smuggler. The real bosses have been bosses since before the Iron Curtain fell and no matter who knows what about them - THEY WILL NEVER BE ARRESTED OR KILLED. Be sure of that. If they didn't get caught until now, you can be sure that they run the entire country. I see OSCE cars who come in to investigate constantly parked infront of their hotels, and they usually leave with the same result. Well fed and blue ball-less.

[Dobre]

In the end, the network is transnational, massive in it's scope and complexity. It works pretty much the same as a scientific project in the CIA. The entire project is overseen by a small group of the most capable individuals who are completely loyal to the CIA and the technical details and whatnot are organized into 100 groups who have no contact with eachother, who each are given a specific purpose or goal that without knowledge of the bigger picture are completely oblivious to the ultimate goal. Say a group of 3-4 scientists is given the goal to create a certain type of semiconductor within 4-8 weeks. It's just a microchip. They're given the schematics, and some details surrounding it. But you will never guess for sure what it's used to power, control, whatever.

Same thing with these networks. The most powerful mafia in the Balkans is the Russian mafia. It oversees everything. Alot of local bosses collaborate with the CIA, which is no surprise. Some are used as pawns and are under complete control of an outside party such as an organized crime group or foreign government intelligence agency(even if they may work for the national intelligence agency of the country it's happening in, so instead of a double agent you'd call that a 'representative'). Some might be semi-independent, that being dependent on this group and that group for financial support, resources, information and even manpower. Some are completely independent and work alongside shadow organizations(which can go from something simple such as Al Qaeda or whatever or even the Duke of Yorkshire, it doesn't matter, to something as big as the Justice League or Secret Society of Underground Reptillians whatever it doesn't matter they can come from another dimension).

In the end, it's a massive network that entangles all facets of society - corporate, political and military.

Did I mention that a Macedonian general who has his own private special forces group called 'Dostvoinstvo' even though people would tell you that's just an army veterans organization of about 2,000 members or even more recently a political party - is currently gathering the signatures of 150,000 Macedonian citizens in an attempt to peacefully and 'within legal grounds' - outst the new Macedonian minister of defense - an Albanian who was a commander in Ushtria Clirimtare Kombetare?