Crime in Kosovo
[10] In 2005 the U.N Drug report has stated that organised crime in Kosovo controlled the heroin market in the region.In 2000, international agencies estimated that the Kosovo drug mafia was supplying up to 40% of the heroin sold in Europe and North America.[12] Due to the 1997 unrest in Albania and the Kosovo War in 1998–1999 ethnic Albanian traffickers enjoyed a competitive advantage, which has been eroding as the region stabilises.[6] According to a 2008 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, overall, ethnic Albanians, not only from Kosovo, supply 10 to 20% of the heroin in Western Europe, and the traffic has been declining.[18] In 2010, a report by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty to the Council of Europe (CoE) uncovered "credible, convergent indications"[19] of an illegal trade in human organs going back over a decade,[15] including the deaths of a "handful" of Serb captives allegedly killed for this purpose.Kosovo is no longer[year needed] a transit place or market for illegal weapons smuggling.[22] According to Amnesty International, the aftermath of the war resulted in an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.[23][24][25] According to the IOM data, in 2000–2004, Kosovo was consistently ranked fourth or fifth among the countries of Southeastern Europe by number of human trafficking victims, after Albania, Moldova, Romania and sometimes Bulgaria.[27] The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that "Kosovo probably has the highest concentration of security personnel in the world".
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