Albanian drug dealers have claimed to be victims of modern slavery in an attempt to avoid deportation. They have lodged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. lead Bujar Cozminca was no stranger to British law enforcement. The young Albanian, who lived until recently on Wembley’s bustling ...

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 ...

Golaj is a village in northwestern Albania with a population today of around 4,000 and just a ten-minute drive from the town of Has. In recent years the community has seen most of its young people ...

(Reuters) - Albanian police arrested 27 people and seized narcotics and weapons on Sunday during a crackdown on gangs smuggling heroin into Germany, authorities said. More than 1,500 officers raided ...

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 ...

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 ...

Migrants have been illegally crossing the 20-mile stretch of the Channel between northern France and Britain on boats for decades. The outlay involved is modest. According to the Global Initiative ...