PRICES Analyzing Flows of People, Drugs and Money in the Western Balkans
RESEARCH REPORT SPOT PRICES Analyzing flows of people, drugs and money in the Western Balkans WALTER KEMP I KRISTINA AMERHAUSER I RUGGERO SCATURRO MAY 2021 SPOT PRICES Analyzing flows of people, drugs and money in the Western Balkans ww Walter Kemp I Kristina Amerhauser I Ruggero Scaturro May 2021 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is an output of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s (GI-TOC) Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe (SEE-Obs). SEE-Obs is a platform that connects and empowers civil society actors in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. It aims to enable civil society to identify, analyze and map criminal trends, and their impact on illicit flows, governance, development, inter-ethnic relations, security and the rule of law, and supports them in their monitoring of national dynamics and wider regional and international organized crime trends. This report is based on data, information and analyses collected and shared by civil society actors based in the Western Balkans. In particular, we thank Arta Berisha, Dajana Berisha, Driçim Çaka, Bojan Elek, Katerina Geteva, Lavdim Hamidi, Artan Hoxha, Jeton Ismaili, Natalija Jakovljević, Miroslava Jelačić, Jelena Jovanović, Danijel Kovačević, Ornela Liperi, Miroslava Milenović, Ana Milosavljević, Semir Mujkić, Safet Mušić, Nadica Petrova, Roland Qafoku, Senad Ramadanović, Ilya Roubanis, Ivica Simonovski, Aleksandar Stankov and Jelena Zorić. We also thank all other contributors who deserve recognition for their support and participation in this report but cannot be named. Special thanks go to our colleagues Anesa Agović and Saša Đorđević as well as Aleksandar Srbinovski for their inputs, feedback, and coordination concerning the field work as well as help with preparation of the data and maps.
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