The Albanian clans became a major actor on people smuggling at the end of the years nineties, letting immigrants on the beach of the Pouilles region, smuggled in connection with the local Italian Mafia (Sacra Corona Unita). Sinds then, they have become active in the trade of immigrants from many nationalities, providing services or cooperating with other criminal organisations, among which the Italian Mafias and the Russian mafia for the transit of Asian victims through Moscow as well as with other criminals groups from ex satellite of the Soviet Union. For the trade through Italy, the Albanians need the support of the local Italian mafias. In the Pouilles region, the Sacra Corona Unita asks for payment for her support to “welcome” the immigrants on the beaches between Bari and Brindisi. Elsewhere, Albanian clans pay a tithe to the Camorra and the N'drangheta, in particular on the outskirts of Milano, a crossroad to Northern Europe. Co-operation with Russian criminal organisations is not very well known but it exists in particular in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg concerning the smuggling of Asian immigrants arriving by plane in this country. Earlier, Albanian criminals were managing Albanian girls, and later girls that they brought from Eastern European countries (Lithuania, Belarus, Moldavia, Bulgaria, ...). They have now to face on this market in European cities a growing competition from other criminal organisations namely Bulgarians and Nigerians, but also with Turks, Iraqi's and Pakistani. However, they maintain control on the activities through renting out locations and bars. The Italian mafias have reached a stage of development which gives them the opportunity to get involved in less risky and less visible criminal activities. We can reasonably suppose that the Italian mafias are getting part of the incomes from the prostitution, where the Albanian groups or others are doing the dirty job.