{"product_id":"the-adriatic-corridor-narco-networks-human-smuggling-and-the-balkan-mafia-from-split-to-trieste","title":"The Adriatic Corridor: Narco Networks, Human Smuggling, and the Balkan Mafia from Split to Trieste","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cargo ship arrives on schedule. Its manifest lists fresh fruit. But beneath the crates of bananas lies a multi-billion euro industry hidden in plain sight. In March 2024, divers recovered 260 kilograms of cocaine from the hull of a cargo vessel in the port of Koper, Slovenia. The shipment was bound for Vienna. Nobody on the dockside noticed a thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not an exception. This is a system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Adriatic Corridor is the first comprehensive investigation of the criminal infrastructure stretching from South American laboratories through the ports of Montenegro and Croatia to the streets of Munich, Vienna, and Frankfurt. Drawing on court records, Europol assessments, and the investigative work of OCCRP and BIRN, Marcus Volker documents what European law enforcement knows but cannot move fast enough to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat you will find inside:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Clan War: How the Škaljari and Kava? clans turned the Adriatic into a combat zone—more than 80 murders across 10 countries in a single decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Riviera Laundromat: Why Montenegrin casinos and Croatian luxury real estate have become the perfect vehicles for cleaning cocaine proceeds—and how that money flows into Austrian and German banks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Institutional Shield: How the fractured political architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina provides Europe’s most effective cover for organized crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Logistics of Movement: The documented overlap between drug trafficking and human smuggling—and why treating them as separate phenomena is a critical policy error.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Justice: Why Operation Trojan Shield failed to break the corridor, and how these networks resume operations the morning after a mass arrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Adriatic corridor does not end where you stop traveling. It ends where you live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on judicial records, Europol operational data, US Treasury designations, and investigative journalism across six countries. Every claim is sourced. Every source is cited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reads like a thriller. Documented like a court filing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for anyone seeking to understand the real geography of organized crime in the heart of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54016581239152,"sku":"979-8249161965","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_8631_53dc5fd5db.jpg?v=1783672303","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/the-adriatic-corridor-narco-networks-human-smuggling-and-the-balkan-mafia-from-split-to-trieste","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}