This allows us to create maps of trafficking areas and requires us to pay attention to reports of organized crime to understand which organized crime units in the Balkan region facilitate this trafficking the most. RESEARCH DESIGN For investigate the effects that organized crime's influence on elected political officials has on the drug route in the Balkans, I intend to examine the transparencies of some countries in the Balkan region to assess how corrupt their elected political officials are. Influence is measured by the level of corruption in a country, using data from reports created by Transparency International and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. I will compare this data with data on tons of heroin seized in the same time period because a decrease in the amount of heroin seized means that the influence of organized crime on political officials has been effective. This means that if the level of corruption increases as the amount of heroin seized decreases, then organized crime has an influence on political officials which results in easy drug trafficking. My time frame goes from the dismantling of Yugoslavia and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc to today