Members of an Albanian crime gang have been jailed after stealing belongings worth more than £1m in dozens of burglaries. Police said they "gloated" about their crimes and "shared images of ill-gotten ...

Albanian gangs are using TikTok, Facebook and Instagram to sell cut-price cigarettes for 'express delivery' to British homes. Fake and smuggled tobacco is one of the most lucrative black-market ...

It took Jenny and Mark Owen some time to realize that the red lights and flashes they glimpsed every night off the coast of Corfu were exploding missiles and tracer bullets. For most of their 10-day ...

Women from impoverished parts of Albania are being lured into work as day labourers on illegal cannabis plantations; if caught, they face paying a high price for what their lawyers say is effectively ...

European police claim to have disrupted a major Albanian drug smuggling gang after they were able to decrypt and analyze private communications between the group and corrupt officials. Europol ...

Teams of police officers from several forces linked the gang to at least 59 burglaries across the UK. This included nine in ...

The organised group, mostly from Albania, targeted luxury properties for items worth a combined £1 million.

BIRN reporters trace the rise of Albanian crime gangs to the top of the European cocaine trafficking ladder, from remote parts of Paraguay to European Union ports. On the afternoon of November 5, 2020 ...