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In June 2017, the National Crime Agency (NCA)'s annual report on organised crime warned that Albanian criminal groups had "established a high-profile influence within UK organised crime", focusing mainly on the trafficking of cocaine to London. The report noted that "The threat faced from Albanian crime groups is significant.
List of members. Albanian mafia or Albanian organized crime (Albanian: Mafia Shqiptare) are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian organized crime is active in Europe, North America, South America, and various other parts of the world including the Middle East and Asia. [ 13 ]
The National Crime Agency said the gang was ‘prepared to smuggle migrants in lorries over one of the longer ferry and freight crossings into the UK’. Albanian people-smuggling gang ...
On the evening of 17 September 2021, Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old woman was murdered in south east London. Her body was found the following day in Cator Park, Greenwich, having been beaten and strangled. Koci Selamaj, an Albanian -born man resident in Eastbourne, East Sussex, pleaded guilty to her murder in February 2022 and was sentenced to ...
Albanians are now the biggest single nationality arriving in the UK by crossing the Channel, with 12,000 making the journey so far this year. Crime gangs smuggling millions of pounds from UK to ...
May 22, 2024 at 4:00 AM. TIRANA, Albania (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron hailed progress in a U.K.-Albania joint effort to cut illegal migration before heading to Tirana on ...
Killing of Emily Jones. On 22 March 2020, 7-year-old Emily Grace Jones[3] was stabbed at Queen's Park in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, while riding her scooter and died shortly afterwards. [4][5] Eltiona Skana, a 30-year-old Albanian woman unknown to the Jones family, was arrested on the scene and later charged with murder. [6][7] Skana ...
June 17, 2024 at 8:00 AM. (Reuters) -Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha, the country's former president and prime minister, on Monday lost his appeal against a ban on entering Britain over ...