Four Albanians are charged with money laundering and drug trafficking

Four ‘suspected Albanian gangsters’ are charged with money laundering and drug trafficking after investigators seize £340,000 in cash and cocaine worth £400,000 Police and the National Crime Agency raided addresses in the south east Officers recovered cocaine and cash at addresses in London and Essex  Four Albanian men were arrested and charged in connection with … Read more

Almost 70 Albanians arrested on board fishing boat off Suffolk coast bound for Britain

Almost 70 Albanians are arrested on board fishing boat to Britain as border chiefs smash massive people-trafficking ring Officers from cutters HMC Searcher and HMC Vigilant boarded vessel Trawler was intercepted off Suffolk coast after intelligence gathered by NCA 69 Albanian men and women were found hiding in the trawler’s fish hold  By David Barrett, … Read more

People smuggler had two Albanians ‘effectively trapped’ in a ‘coffin like hideaway’

Revealed: Secret coffin-like compartment where Romanian people smuggler tried to carry two migrants into the UK in his flatbed truck as he is jailed for two years People trafficker tried to smuggle two Albanian men under floorboards of truck Border Force found the migrants after the vehicle arrived at the Port of Dover  Romanian Stefan-Gabriel … Read more