The city of Shijak and 11 other cities were over the weekend the epicenter of the police operation that destroyed one of the country's most powerful criminal groups.
19 people suspected of being members of the Avdyli group were arrested in Shijak as suspected of drug trafficking to European Union countries with main activity in Germany. Two others are declared wanted.In Sukth, the police took action to strike the Avduli group. The head of the home is declared wanted, while the police detained the family members.
Hasi's laboratory is believed to have been founded under the financing of a businessman with initials A.H., who had brought two Turkish citizens a weeks ago to Albania.
The criminal group of Shijak is implicated in the heroin lab uncovered in a village of Hasi.