'Lorna’s Silence' - a woman torn between her conscience and her dream

Edit The Examiner 16 May 2016
In an interview with the Dardenne brothers, Time Out suggested that although the film might sound like yet another mafia movie, “by focusing on Lorna and the glimmers of humanity that she gradually reveals ...... The idea for the story apparently came from a real-life situation - a woman whom the Dardenne brothers met and whose brother was a drug addict who’d been approached by the Albanian mafia about an arranged marriage ... ....

How the Albanians ‘destroyed’ the Maltese sex business in Soho

Edit The Malta Independent 03 Apr 2016
Around about the millennium, the Maltese running the sex business in Soho were forced out by the Albanian mafia ... It brought with them a couple of hundred gangsters, hardened KIA veterans and sworn brothers from born criminal clans of the Albanian south ... At the millennium those running the brothels of Soho were Maltese, an old-established mafia ... “The Albanian mafia by 2005-2006 became dizzy with success....

Border Closures Heighten Fear Refugees May Use Adriatic Connection

Edit Voa News 04 Mar 2016
The move would lead refugees to use people smugglers linked to the Albanian mafia, an extremely violent organized crime network. In the 1990s, in the aftermath of the long-running Balkans war, Europe's police forces considered the Albanian mafia to be a dominant player in the sex trafficking of women on the continent....

With Macedonian route shut, refugees eye dangerous sea crossing to Italy

Edit Yahoo Daily News 04 Mar 2016
“It will be more risky because it is much longer than the Turkey to Greece crossings, and you will also have the involvement of the Albanian mafia,” Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the head of mission in Greece for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), told the Monitor at the Idomeni crossing ... If they can reach the Albanian coast, they will have a shot at crossing the Adriatic to southeastern Italy....

Common interview: The rapper-cum-actor reveals the films that influenced his role alongside Liam Neeson in ...

Edit The Independent 18 Mar 2015
History will surely regard this year's Oscars as having benefited from the Common touch ... "It's still fresh," he recalls ... "Not everything you do is going to do it but you want to have some things that have that impact ... "In our world of Irish and Albanian mafia, there is no one who can beat Liam, so somebody has to come from another movie and try to beat him! I needed somebody who could be completely way off ... --> ... ....

Happy Kosovo Independence Day?

Edit Antiwar 18 Feb 2015
By some estimates as many as 100,000 have fled the country in the past few months ... The Albanian Mafia has ruled the country ever since the "liberation," and Kosovo’s government has taken its place among the most corrupt in the world ... “‘I am so disappointed with my own place, I just want to leave,’ said Bislim Shabani, an ethnic Albanian heading to Germany with his wife and four children ... In short....

‘Taken 3’ Review: Liam Neeson Rides the Franchise to an Absurd Conclusion

Edit IMDb 09 Jan 2015
After seeing Neeson’s Bryan Mills lay waste to sex traffickers and the Albanian mafia in the two previous installments, the filmmakers » ... ....

Liam Neeson Rides the Franchise to an Absurd Conclusion

Edit The Wrap 09 Jan 2015
After seeing Neeson’s Bryan Mills lay waste to sex traffickers and the Albanian mafia in the two previous installments, the filmmakers apparently felt hard-pressed to find a bad guy who could present a viable challenge to the seasoned CIA veteran. See video. ‘Taken 3′ Star Liam Neeson Framed for Murder in Film’s First Trailer (Video) ... Also read. ‘Taken 3′ Reviews. Critics Don’t Think Third Time’s a Charm for Liam Neeson Thriller....

'NCIS' recap: 'So It Goes'

Edit Celebrity Café 10 Oct 2014
NCIS started with a man driving in a red car down a road while talking to someone on the phone ... McGee quickly calls 911 ... However, he doesn’t leave as he watches them figure out that the replacements for all of the dead naval officers were Albanian-American ... McGee comes in and tells them that he found that all of the replacements had listed the same emergency contact, whose name is Gareth Ahmeti, a man associated with the Albanian Mafia....

Brisbane chef Peter Milos’ murder sheds light on complex web of crime

Edit The Australian 17 May 2014
THE unsolved murder of Peter Milos has opened a Pandora’s box of the drug underworld, linking his family to corrupt union figures, builders, bikies, Vietnamese heroin dealers and Albanian mafia ... SLAIN CHEF. Dark final days revealed. SECRETS. Murdered chef’s double life ... Mystery murder 2.04. Play video ... TEN 08 May 2014 News ... The scion of an Albanian crime family, Kalaja is a cousin of the Milos brothers, according to sources ... ....

Murdered Brisbane chef Peter Milos in business with drug suspect

Edit The Australian 08 May 2014
MURDERED chef Peter Milos had a suspected drug dealer as a partner in his restaurant business the year before he took over iconic eatery Mariosarti ... MURDERED CHEF’S SECRET DOUBLE LIFE. MILOS’ LINKS TO MAFIA FAMILY ... Well-placed sources alleged it was “common knowledge” that the Milos brothers were related to the Kalaja Albanian mafia family, including jailed drug lord Daniel Kalaja ... ....

Murdered chef Peter Milos had links to Albanian mafia family

Edit The Australian 07 May 2014
A MURDERED restaurateur who was once a rising star of Brisbane’s fine dining scene had underworld connections which ran deep. Peter Milos was a blood relative of an Albanian mafia family that was taken down in one of Queensland’s biggest drug stings, which also netted his eldest brother Allen. MURDERED CHEF’S DOUBLE LIFE OF DRUGS AND VIOLENCE ... Play video ... Play video ... ....

Homemade tank seized in Venice invasion plot

Edit The Australian 03 Apr 2014
ITALIAN police have thwarted a bizarre plot to take over St Mark's Square in Venice armed with guns and a rudimentary “tank” made from a digger ... The underground group, made up of radical separatists from the Lombardy, Sardinia and Veneto regions, had been planning to “liberate” the iconic Venetian piazza using weapons from the Albanian mafia and set up a new independent government, police said ... AP. ....
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