DRUG lords from Albania are making a mockery of our deportation system by returning to commit more crime after being booted out. Anyone deported from the UK is placed on a watchlist and banned from re-entering the country.
Express
By JON AUSTIN, EXCLUSIVE
PUBLISHED: 16:26, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 | UPDATED: 17:06, Sun, Jan 27, 2019
Esmerald Cuni, left, and Clirim Malecaj, all returned to the UK after being deported (Image: nc)
However, a Sunday Express investigation found several cases where deported Albanian criminals, including high-end drug dealers, have resurfaced in the UK, sometimes within a year of being kicked out and in other cases multiple times. One serious criminal officials hope will not return is Albanian Alek Dauti, 31, the ringleader of a people smuggling network that tried to get hundreds of illegal migrants into the UK. He was extradited to Belgium on Friday to serve a 10 year jail sentence he received in his absence in December.
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Dauti's gang used corrupt truck drivers to smuggle men, women and children into the UK, sometimes using refrigerated lorries.
Last week police in Blackpool said two Albanian men were facing deportation and another was on the run, after they raided a cannabis factory in the town.
Another man, Esmerald Cuni, 25, was convicted of using false Greek identity documents at Hull Crown Court in November.
REPEAT OFFENDERS.... Baksim Bushati was deported three times before he returned (Image: Newsteam)
Cuni was first found illegally in the UK in 2015 and deported but came back and was jailed for a year for possession of illegal documents.
Tory MP Philip Hollobone said: "Our present border controls are evidently inadequate in preventing Albanian crime on our streets. While measures are being taken they are not effective."
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Many Albanians illegally enter the UK hiding on lorries in EU countries, before getting work at hand car washes.
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A video posted on an Albanian Facebook page shows a young man, possibly a teenager, hiding in a lorry destined for the UK.
Posted under the headline "Hasian on way to London" it received several comments from well wishers and others branding him "stupid".
Many have turned to people smuggling gangs to obtain false identity documents of EU countries.
A high proportion of those able to slip back into the UK are part of Albanian Mafia drugs gangs who the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned are taking control of Britain's cocaine trade, due to their direct links to Colombian cartels, and also homegrown cannabis cultivation.
One Albanian drug dealer was deported three times but managed to sneak back a fourth time when he was found with 1kg of cocaine worth £26,000 and £14,000 in cash at his home in Weedon, Northamptonshire.
Baksim Bushati, 42, was deported three times between 2005 and 2013 for battery and having false documents, but kept returning to the UK. He was jailed for seven years over the drugs in 2014 and was due to be deported again.
Judge Richard Bray who sentenced him described our borders as a "leaking sieve". The Home Office was slammed for not listing him on the national warnings index that may have prevented re-entry. A source said he has yet to return to Albania.
Clirim Malecaj, 32, was jailed for six years in 2015 for being part of a gang of 20 Albanians flooding Manchester with cocaine. The court heard he was earlier jailed for a similar offence and deported but returned to continue dealing.
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The Home Office was criticised for not preventing re-entry of drug barons (Image: getty)
Luis Gjergji, 34, was arrested by the NCA in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, with 2kg of cocaine and £42,200 in cash.
Luton Crown Court was told it was his second offence and in 2010 he was jailed for six years for trying to smuggle £190,000 of heroin through Dover. He was later deported, but returned.
In November 2014 he was jailed a second time for 13 years.
Dorian Puka, 24, was back in the UK within less than a year of first being kicked out.
Last year he was jailed at Kingston Crown Court when he got three and a half years after admitting two counts of burglary.
The court heard that in 2016 he was jailed for nine months in connection with an attempted burglary in August 2015.
After serving that sentence he was deported in November 2016. But within a year he was back living in Greenford.
On November 16, 2017, he was found by police in Surbiton wearing a watch that had been stolen that day. He was charged with two burglaries and later sentenced to three and a half years and will again be deported.
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Luis Gjergji was jailed at Luton Crown Court for trying to smuggle heroin (Image: luton crown court)
Vehbi Shira was first deported to Albania after being found working in a car wash for two years aged 15 at Croydon in 2015.
He was deported twice in 2016, but was able to return and was caught in his car with hundreds of pounds of cocaine and false Portuguese identity papers in September 2017.
He admitted having the drugs with intent to supply and having a false ID document at Kingston Crown Court in November 2017. He was sentenced to three years and 10 months' custody and deported last July.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The Western Balkans is a region where we are giving greater focus, working with governments to increase cooperation to tackle shared threats.
"Foreign nationals who commit crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them. We have removed nearly 45,800 since 2010.
"Border Force officers are rigorously trained to detect fraudulent documents and our ePassport gates are equipped with forgery detection and facial recognition technology."
A NCA spokeswoman said: "Albanian crime groups have established a high profile within UK organised crime, and have considerable access to the UK drug trafficking market, particularly cocaine. They are also expanding their influence upstream and their prominence is increasing..
"London is their primary hub but they are established across the UK. Albanian organised crime groups appear to be good at forging links with other groups. We have run a number of investigations that have involved Albanian nationals - this has contributed to our growing understanding of groups from the Western Balkans."
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