US-Serbian gang may have friends in high places
US-Serbian gang may have friends in high places
Meet Group America, the most pervasive drug-trafficking syndicate you’ve never heard of — In 1980, a Serbian immigrant took over the Westies, a largely Irish-American gang in New York that eventually became the international organization we call #GroupAmerica.
Decades later, police around the world are impressed by the global scope of its operations — and stunned the gang remains active.
More than one senior police source told OCCRP that they credit the gang’s success to ties with intelligence agencies, maybe even the CIA. (OCCRP - Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, 01.09.2020)
https://www.occrp.org/en/group-america/powerful-serbian-american-drug-traffickers-may-have-ties-to-intelligence-agencies