Violent Albanian Gangland mafia hiding in minibuses, using Rolexes, and hiring fake tourists to send the dirty money to be used in a luxurious life.
At the end of last year, there were about 1,100 Albanians, including murderers, rapists and fears feared of Balkan Mafia Kingpins. Only three were women.
In addition to controlling drug trade, Albanian Gangsters, who terrorized Britain, were also convicted of murder, sex crimes, money laundering and smuggling.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned about wild tactics to keep the competition away from the ‘important threat’ created by Albanian gangs for years, as well as professionalism and disciplines.
The brutal Albanian gangs left the British drug trade, directly negotiated with Colombian cartels and watered criminal rivals with cheap cocaine.
. It is an increasing concern for the flow of money back to Albania. His fears have increased so much that the agency signed an agreement last year to see that the anti -Albanian crime office Spak and the Unit hunted the existence of Albanians convicted in England.
In 2010, only 1.5 percent of foreign nationals imprisoned in England and Wales was Albanians.
However, at the end of 2024, the Albanians were 10.6 percent – more than all other nationalities.
While publishing a picture of two members wearing red balaclavas decorated with the Albanian flag, a machine gun branded
Images published on the Instagram page of the gangs include a cake made of £ 50 notes and gang logos syllable in drugs
Albanian gang members are usually not afraid to show their poorly earned gains that posed with cash money.
The number of swelling of the Albanians is partly in a large number of channels, in 2022, a total of 12,685 England comes to the UK on small boats.
However, this ratio has fallen since the ministers signed a prisoner transfer agreement with the Albanian government in 2022.
Rishi was deported to £ 200 under the altar and £ 8 million to modernize prison systems.
The worker promised to deport foreign criminals faster by saying that the taxpayers’ adaptation to the invoice is’ not right ‘.
It is thought that it costs approximately £ 40,000 a year to host each prisoner and shows that Britain spent £ 44 million to lock Albanian criminals.
As the crime gangs try to move their money back home, it is known that they hide the money in the delivery minibuses traveling between the two countries.
He said that a large number of vans and trucks in the Albanian community in the UK from the inside of the Albanian community can be kept in a straight view of criminals with secret money among the goods.
In 2021, the police hid £ 123,000 in the buffer of a minibus carrying goods from the UK.
Although Sefolli found 10 packages hidden in a X -ray White Mercedes minibus, he was arrested in Albania.
The money earned from criminal activities was accused of laundering and not declaring money at the border crossing. The police also found weapons hidden in the van.
Speaking at that time, Edi Merkaj, the former director of the Border and Migration Department at the Albanian State Police, said: ‘Pripes by Albanian border police and private authorities, punch another case defined in the transport of monetary values.
Sefolli said: ‘The owner of this minibus, not me, should make a statement for money. It has three minibuses. I’m just counting visible goods. How can I know what’s hidden? I don’t get a salary, but I get money for every journey I make ‘.
The weapons found in a courier minibus driven by Olsi Sefolli stopped in Albania of the United Kingdom
It is known that Albanian gangs use buildings for a large part of marijuana. A police raid farm depicted in Norfolk in 2023
After trying to cross the border, olsi Sefolli was seized £ 123,000 in cash.
Olsi Sefolli told the prosecutor that he went to the port of Ankona in Northern Italy and received the minibus. ‘The minibus from the UK was directed by a different driver’ he said.
According to the Albanian police, the minibus belonged to a Luton -based company led by Guxim Sefolli.
In an Albanian court, he was sentenced to a nine -month imprisonment for not proclaiming the money.
Guxy Sefolli said that he had migrated to the Court in England in 2010 and that he was working in the black market for seven years because he was an illegal immigrant without any documents in England.
He was planning to invest the money in an apartment in Vlora, Southern Albania.
He confessed that his cousin was hiding the money in the van, saying he wasn’t aware of the money.
Olsi Sefolli was arrested after finding large money hiding in the police van.
Some Albanian gangsters like Marsel Meco (left with another prisoner in the picture) even shared pictures while in the British prison
Registered in the UK, there are more than 30 companies that carry products such as clothes and furniture to Albania.
In the Albanian community in the United Kingdom, a source said it was well known that some of these companies missed money outside the country.
In another case in Bari in Italy, the police discovered £ 225,000 on the roof of a minibus.
ANSA Italian news agency reported that the money was sealed with vacuum bags and that the driver was on his way to Albania.
Customs personnel in Bari, England plates and Albanian drivers cars were usually stopped in the harbor and such trips such as ‘weekly’, he added.
Thousands of pounds of cash hidden in the tights of Suzanna Sokolli
Though Sefolli was arrested after finding 10 packs hidden in an X -ray White Mercedes minibus
X -ray images of Olsi Sefolli’s minibus revealed hidden items to the officers
Another way for gangs to use the money out of England is to employ couriers to pose as a tourist to hide the money from commercial airports, trains and ferries.
Couriers are given money to make a total of around 20,000 travel and cash wads to take back to Albania.
In 2018, the mother and son of Albania, Suzanna Sokolli and Xhino Mata, were hidden £ 40,000 in the tights of a pair of women in Dover.
Both have been imprisoned in Canterbury Crown Court for more than three years.
Mata, who claimed to go to France and Milan, said that it was £ 7,000 and produced a bag full of banknotes.
Suzanna Sokolli tried to kidnap money from the United Kingdom, which hides its tights
MATA and his mother tried to escape to more than 40,000 £ cash smugglers through Dover
A handbag found a few large cash bundles in the lining.
Later, Sokolli was searched and a pair of beige tights wrapped in his waist found more cash.
He claimed that money was saving life and said he hoped to use it to start a business.
He claimed that he had been robbed before and felt safer to have his person.
Officers seized more than 40,000 £ from the couple.
In another case, 51 -year -old Albanian husband Ardian Sharra and 41 -year -old Valbona Laloshi were stopped by NCA officials in the Channel Tunnel in the City.
The couple declared that they would pay for dental treatment in Italy and declared that they were £ 5,000.
However, the officers found an extra £ 14,000 £ £ 14,000 hiding in a handbag and £ 200,000 hidden in a backpack on the car boat.
A search at the couple’s house found a series of documents that detail the large cash deposits to the couple’s bank accounts.
It is known that gangs carry money using Rolexes.
He said that a gangs would buy expensive watches from an inside in the Albanian community in England and sell them less than £ 2,000 to £ 3,000 in Albania.
From the inside, this tactic said it was used because rolex travelers will be stopped by border control officers.
Crime gangs are now thought to use crypto currency to transfer money between the two countries.
Later, money, which was won for Albanian crime in England and invests in Albania, luxury bars, luxury cars. He said the money was washed in this way.
In recent weeks, Spak has applied for permission to freeze the assets of the drug king Ermal Biba.
Drug King Ermal Biba was sentenced to 13 years in prison for organizing cocaine supply in Harrogate
NCA Graeme Biggar president in Tirana is signing cooperation with the president of Spak Altini Dumani.
NCA and Spak signed an agreement in the UK to see that Albanian criminals have seized their assets in their own countries.
In August 2023, Biba was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison by Crown Court in the UK.
According to the court, between September 2019 and May 2022, he organized at least 5 kg cocaine supply in Harrogate and produced 144 kg of cannabis with his partners.
British authorities estimate that biba and criminal partners have made £ 1.48 million from drug trafficking.
ERMAL BIBA was the president of an organized network containing several Albanians, British citizens and Poland citizens who participated in drug trafficking in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
In December 2024, a judge at the Crown Court in Leeds ordered a guard against the beings of the Biba.
Spak has now seized Biba’s two-storey house in Lezha and a Mercedes-Benz SLK, and froze all monetary assets, properties and bank accounts held from illegal gains in Albania.
A spokesman said: ‘Members of the Albania law enforcement officers are important partners in NCA’s struggle against serious and organized crimes and in our mission of protecting the British people.
‘In February 2024, NCA and Spak signed an agreement that deepens our commitment to work together for the benefit of both nations.’
