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The Albanian mafia seems to have established good working relationships with the Italian organized crime groups, [46] On 27 July 1999 police in Durrës (Albania), with Italian assistance arrested one of the godfathers of the "Sacra Corona Unita", one of the main crime groups based in the region of Apulia.
The number of Albanian asylum applicants rose from 173 in 2008 to 1,809 in 2015. The vast majority of applications citing blood feuds were rejected. [8] [18] Between April 2015 and April 2019, 6,200 Albanian nationals were deported from the UK to Albania. This was the highest number of any nationality over this period.
Saimir Tahiri. Saimir Tahiri is a convicted Albanian politician, who served as the Minister of Interior Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama from 2013 to 2017. In 2019 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, reduced to 3 years and 4 months due to the abbreviated trial on charges of abuse of office.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Labour and criminal exploitation is the most prevalent forms of modern slavery identified in the UK. The most common nationality of potential victims in 2020 was UK nationals, accounting for 34% (3,560) of all referrals. The second most referred nationality was Albanian (15%; 1,638), followed by Vietnamese nationals (6%; 653).