
Conversation between the leader of the Kavač clan and a wanted police officer, Ljubo Milović
For years, the world of organized crime seemed to operate in the dark, inaccessible to law enforcement. But an encrypted app, Sky ECC, has shaken the foundations of the mafia across Europe. From the Netherlands to Greece, from Serbia to Albania, the network of encrypted conversations has revealed not only the routes of drug trafficking, but also the faces of internal collaborators in the police, politics and justice.
In Montenegro, recently released communications by the authorities speak of a cold mafia logic: "You can't go to war without good cocaine," says Radoje Zvicer, one of the leaders of the "Kavac" clan, to his associate, the fugitive former police officer Ljubo Milović. The conversations mention quantities, qualities, prices and trafficking routes, from Uruguay to the port of Santos, with prices reaching up to 32 thousand euros per unit. They also reveal the mafia's influence on appointments, arms shipments and assassination plans.
This model is also known for Albania. The conversations declassified by SPAK show that the Sky ECC application was used to lobby for positions on electoral lists, to provide police protection and to hide the assets of the traffic in "clean" investments. Former socialist MP Jurgis Çyrbja is found to be in communication with elements of organized crime to place his name on the list of candidates for elections. His words in the conversation are chilling: "It lifted my morale... because we were losing our minds". Messages that show not just flirting, but a full-fledged marriage between politics and the mafia.
In Greece, investigations into Albanian Sky ECC users revealed that Greek police officers were demanding drugs in exchange for "services", while the conversations mentioned numbers, names and operational instructions. Similarly, in Albania, the identification of "Bahçevan", people who were in charge of money laundering, brought to light an integrated criminal infrastructure.
Sky ECC is not just an app, but an archive of the Balkan criminal truth. Its unraveling has exposed faces, structures, and above all, the silent collaboration of the institutions that were supposed to protect citizens. If in Montenegro, the authorities have launched high-level criminal proceedings, in Albania, silence remains the most common official response.
Instead of serving as an alarm signal for deep reform, Sky ECC risks turning into another file that gets put in a drawer. Because where the mafia speaks but the state remains silent, justice dies in silence./ Pamphlet
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