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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nBy Eugene S. Robinson<\/p>\n
This is some real James Bond shit. Not so much because of the suits, drinks shaken and not stirred and cars to kill for, but if you\u2019re looking for archvillain-type stuff, you can\u2019t get much closer than the Macedonian Albanian crusher of men Daut Kadriovski.<\/em> In his 50s and wanted in 12 European countries for crimes connected to every aspect of arms, cars, drugs and human and organ trafficking, Kadriovski, according to Europol, sits atop a crime organization at this point unmatched for secrecy and brutality. Two qualities that are much more than casually connected.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had one of [the members of this criminal organization] in here and tried to get him to turn state\u2019s [evidence],\u201d says former New York undercover organized-crime cop Fred Santoro about his attempts to turn an Albanian prisoner into an informant. The erstwhile gangster stood up from his meeting with Santoro and asked to be returned to his prison cell and<\/em> his 30-year sentence for racketeering. Santoro \u2014 shocked, and more familiar with Italian Mafiosi stumbling over themselves to cut deals for reduced sentences \u2014 asked why the Albanian wouldn\u2019t. \u201cHe turned to me and said very plainly, \u2018They will kill my mother, my father, my brothers, my sisters, my children, my wife and everybody I know. So thanks, but no.\u2019 The Albanians are savages.\u201d Savages and apparently smarter than the average bear, as Kadriovski\u2019s been arrested no fewer than two noteworthy times. The first time, for drug trafficking, was in 1985 in Germany, where they threw him in jail and seized his villas, yachts and cars. At that point, the plan may have been to lock him up and throw away the key, but it quickly became let him wander off<\/em>, which is exactly what he did. Nasty allegations were leveled at all those in charge of keeping him in, but the fact remained that, by 1993, he was on his way to New York<\/a> and people were calling him a fugitive.<\/p>\n He then became a known associate of some of the original Mafia crime families in an area where Albanians<\/a> in general had already distinguished themselves as assassins. Dangerous and unpredictable, but good assassins nonetheless. So with a foothold in New York and Philly, Kadriovski also expanded into doing what he did best, outside of killing, and now his organization is believed to be North America\u2019s main source of heroin from Afghanistan\u2019s Golden Crescent, according to the FBI. Because, you see, Daut Kadriovski, also known as Mehmed Haidini or Mehmet Hajdini, is part of a Muslim Albanian connection that\u2019s tied the organization, in the shadows, to Al-Qaeda<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having more connections than a switchboard is a necessary prerequisite for what Kadriovski has put together. To wit: A heroin-for-cocaine connection with Colombians, plus hundreds of associates moving drugs in Australia, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Venezuela and all over the E.U. Which brings us to the second time Kadriovski was a prisoner: September 2, 2001, when he was locked down in a police station in Tirana, Albania, after an arrest by locals and Interpol for drug trafficking. Something in literary terms we might call foreshadowing: Kadriovski disappeared again and, if rumors from last year are to be believed, is dead now. Or \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n
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