Albanian police has arrested one person and seized 2040 kg of marijuana. The weed was hidden in a truck that has been stopped while it was trying to enter in Greece crossing the Kakavie border. Post communist Albania is often used as transit point for drugs and weapons. Criminals target Albania because of its lax border controls, a weak judiciary and corrupt police force. But now the Albanian government is trying to joint the NATO and the EU: lower the corruption and stop illicit trafficsis the first condition requested by EU and NATO to go on with the negotiation: a big problem for the Albanian government.

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