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Description
Italian financial police. Aerial monitoring of Lazarat cannabis fields (2013 and 2014 estimates).
Contracts and money
Figures recorded for the cases linked to this organisation. A figure here is not necessarily paid to or by this organisation; check payer and payee.
Guardia di Finanza aerial estimate: Lazarat-area cannabis 2013 (319 ha; over 1,000 t)
€4,000,000,000
otherSource label: UnverifiedStated definition: Estimate of market value from aerial imagery (per Italian financial police as reported). Not a measured sales figure.
Date: 2013 · Payer: not applicable · Payee: not applicable
- Gangs based in Lazarat produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year (AP, June 2014) (opens in a new tab)AP / Fox News · Jun 2014 · journalism · EN
Guardia di Finanza estimate: Lazarat ~900 t a year, value EUR 4.5bn (2014)
€4,500,000,000
otherSource label: UnverifiedStated definition: Estimate; about half of Albania's GDP per the same reporting. Not measured.
Date: Jun 2014 · Payer: not applicable · Payee: not applicable
- Amid heavy gunfire, Albanian police battle to restore law to farming village turned pot empire (opens in a new tab)AP / Fox News · Jun 2014 · journalism · EN
Interior Ministry: market value of cannabis destroyed in 2014 (national)
€6,400,000,000
seizureSource label: Officially reportedStated definition: Official claim of market value of seized and destroyed cannabis nationally, more than 60% of GDP (per officials). Value method not published.
Date: 2014 · Payer: not applicable · Payee: not applicable
- 6.4 billion EUR of drugs seized in 2014 (opens in a new tab)Top Channel · unknown · journalism · EN
Officials and people linked
No person is linked to this organisation in the research.
Investigations and cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 2013
Lazarat cannabis economy and the 2014 police raid
Lazarat, a village in southern Albania (Vlora region), became the centre of a cannabis economy in the 2010s. Italian financial police (Guardia di Finanza) used aerial photographs to estimate output…
Status: Historic. Cultivation shifted, reduced, and recorded as 'considerably lower' outdoors by 2022 (EUDA). Several local figures remain disputed.
Sources for this record
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Source label: UnverifiedUnverified · 1 source
- Publisher
- AP / Fox News
- Date
- Jun 2014