Sean Williams
speaker
3,152 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Sean Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Quote, nestled on Albania's southern coast just forty five miles across the Adriatic from Italy, the crumbling port of Florrie love journalists going to foreign countries and just calling everything crumbling.
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The crumbling port of Florie is a smuggler's paradise.
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Countless sandy coves hidden along the rugged shoreline provide ideal loading bases for high powered speed boats laden with heroin, hashtag.
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Sheesh, guns, or human cargo.
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An under equipped, underpaid police force is nearly powerless to catch them.
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The Albanian government had, in its desperation to get Vlora back under control, dispatched a cop called Sokul Kotiu to become its police chief.
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Within three months he's kidnapped and held at gunpoint for capturing six gang speedboats.
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He also breaks up a plan to extort Kurdish refugees by the gangs in Vlora.
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He's like an Albanian Harvey Den, and people love him.
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A ray of uncorruptible moral light in an otherwise tainted state.
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Until he's not.
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Because in two thousand one Kotyou is caught up in a scheme by two Albanian businessmen to ship Colombian cocaine into Albania before shipping it on to Western Europe and Russia.
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Kochou finds out he's about to get stung by his former colleagues and goes on the run for three weeks, taunting them by calling media from his various hiding places.
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They finally get to him, but adds the article quote, cops say revelations about Cochou's corruptions have demoralized them and prompted many to reassess the hero cop's record in Vlora.
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It wouldn't surprise me if he staged his own kidnapping, says one longtime colleague.
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He was always an adventurer, exactly the kind of character whom Albania's reformers will have to contend with as they try to bring their country some respect.
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So here you have the portrait of a city where things have really gone off the rails.
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The government has been pushed out, even the shiniest cops are corrupt, the local gangs are working hand in hand with Italian mafiosi, and all the while Albanian criminal groups are extending their influence into the global drug trade.
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They've already made their way to the source of cocaine production right in the jungles of Colombia.
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In two thousand one, Zanny Soshi is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for a whole suite of crimes, leading in on gang, hostage taking, wounding and, of course, murder.
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