During the nineties of the past century, the organized crime appeared аs a consequence of economic and political changes in the Southeastern Europe region. Transition processes were influenced by the war events and so the changes were additionally burdened. Since the processes were followed by the violence caused by the war and the lack of the vision, the legal institution activities were replaced by different activities, including criminal activities. From the historical point of view, the organized crime presents the new activity in this area, but it reached and even overcame its competitors. Although the organized crime in the Southeastern Europe region had all main caracteristics of the organized crime in general, started by the purposes, methods and organization, those caracteristics were improved and adapted to the Southeastern Europe’s conditions. Thus this negative structure made of the professional criminals, corrupt politicians and subordinate policemen became a specific “Balkan” criminal company. In the other word, the organized crime was marked by the Balkan mentality. Thus, the profit goes beyond the earnings of many powerful international corporations and National Income of many countries. So, the organized crime in the Southeastern Europe region became one of the most powerful international crime gangs and a powerful competitor, not only to the other international criminal groups, but to the legal state economies, as well.
As far as it raises power, especially financial power and influence of the organized crime to the legal social structures and to economic and political situation, the need of organized opposition to this very dangerous criminal organization is bigger. Thus the fight against the organized crime is a very important duty of each country, including the countries from the region. In that sense, a special attention should be paid to the fight against the organized crime, beginning with the normative regulation, trough the special organs and procedures oriented to the suppression of this social evil incarnated in the form of the organized crime.Organizovani kriminal u regionu Jugoistočne Evrope nastao je devedesetih godina prošlog veka kao posledica ekonomskih i političkih promena koje su se na ovom prostoru odigravale u dramatičnim okolnostima. Tranzicioni procesi bili su opterećeni i ratnim zbivanjima što je ove promene dodatno opterećivalo. U takvim okolnostima, kada je te procese pratilo nasilje izazvano ratom, kao i nedostatak vizije, nije neobično što su različite, pa i kriminalne delatnosti zamenile aktivnosti legalnih društvenih institucija. Sve to je uslovilo da organizovani kriminal, mada istorijski posmatrano predstavlja noviju pojavu na ovim prostorima, veoma brzo sustigne, pa čak i prevaziće svoje konkurente. Iako je organizovani kriminal na prostoru Jugoistočne Evrope prihvatio sve osnovne karakteristike organizovanog kriminala počev od ciljeva, odnosno motiva, metoda, organizacije, on ih je pritom ih unapredio i prilagodio sopstvenim okolnostima. Na taj način, ta negativna sprega profesioalnih kriminalca, korumpiranih političara i podređenih policajaca dodala je jednu novu dimenziju koja je tu spregu pretvorila u specifično kriminalno „balkansko“ preduzeće. Drugim rečima, balkanski mentalitet dao je poseban pečat organizovanom kriminalu. Na taj način ostvaren je profit koji po visini prevazilazi zarade mnogih snažnih međunarodnih korporacija i nacionalne dohotke mnogih država. Tako je organizovani kriminal na prostoru Jugoistočne Evrope postao jedan od moćnih gangova međunarodnog kriminala i moćni konkurent, ne samo drugim međunarodnim kriminalnim udruženjima, nego i legalnim društvenim i državnim privredama.
Ukoliko raste snaga, posebno finansijka moć i uticaj organizovanog kriminala na legalne društvene strukture i na ekonomske i političke prilike u državi, utoliko je potreba organizovanog suprostavljanja ovoj veoma opasnoj kriminalnoj organizaciji veća. Zato je borba protiv organizovanog kriminala veoma znaačajna obaveza svake države, pa i država u regionu. U tom smislu ona zaslužuje posebnu pažnju i napor u svim elementima, počev pod normativne sfere, preko posebnih organa i procedura usmerenih na suzbijanje ovog društvenog zla oličenog u organizovanom kriminalu
