Mevlan Dema

UK Drug Gangs Recruit in Albania’s Remote North

Published by Balkan Insight on Wed, 06/19/2019 - 06:00

Speaking in April last year, Britain's ambassador to Albania, Duncan Norman, said "60 to 70 per cent" of 726 Albanian inmates at that time in Britain were from these three northern counties.

Deeply impoverished, the region has become a rich recruitment ground for the Albanian crime gangs that now dominate the cocaine market in Britain.