Albanian gangs control much of the cocaine market in the UK and are now thought to have successfully moved in on much of the cannabis market, replacing previously dominant Vietnamese crime groups.

Last year, a leaked Home Office legal document described Albanian criminal gangs as an 'acute threat' to the UK and 'highly prevalent across serious and organised crime' in Britain – including ...

Eight people have been jailed, the ringleader for 23 years, after a £7m conspiracy in Wiltshire to supply cocaine across the ...

But the number has fallen sharply after the UK and Albanian governments agreed a fast-track returns deal to deport illegal migrants from Britain. Albanian drug gangs have responded to shortages of ...

Albanian national Klevis Disha, 39, entered the UK illegally in 2001 as an unaccompanied 15-year-old, falsely claiming to be from the former Yugoslavia. He was granted exceptional leave to remain ...

READ MORE: Violent Albanian crimes gangs behind Scotland's cannabis farm explosion exposed READ MORE ... “There’s a whole economy in Albania which is based on the money being sent there from the UK.

In posts on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, Albanian immigrants in the UK discuss the challenges of ... to expose the lies of organised smuggler gangs. The social media campaign was overseen ...

Both men had arrived in the UK in small boats from France after leaving Albania - and were quickly entwined with a sophisticated drugs gang. Officers searched industrial properties in Lorne Street ...

Evidence about child’s picky eating helps convince immigration tribunal that being forced to leave UK would be unduly harsh An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay in Britain partly because his ...

In the early hours of November 10, 2022, police raided a cannabis production and processing plant in the village of Rerez, near Berat in central Albania. They found four large greenhouses ...