One in 50 Albanians in the UK is in jail, according to analysis revealing the first league table of criminality by ...

charged or sentenced for involvement in organised crime networks after an underworld phone app was hacked. BIRN examines what is known about the suspects so far. Albania will soon have a new chief ...

Criminals from the Western Balkans are unleashing a tidal wave of violence, cruelty and addiction on to our streets ...

The statistics, which cover areas home to more than 300 million Americans, suggest crime is returning to levels ... 27: The ...

The allegedly corrupt former prime minister of Albania has ... serious and organised crime” in Britain, including people smuggling and sex trafficking. It points to statistics showing that ...

Albania’s incoming new police chief has had his mobile phone seized by prosecutors investigating a suspected leak of confidential information to an organised crime gang, BIRN has learned.

Cozminca’s organised crime group had far-reaching international connections – a feature core to the power now wielded by significant Albanian drug trafficking groups. Individuals like him ...

They emerged in a file of some 500 pages of documents as part of the case being investigated by Albania’s special court against corruption and organised crime (SPAK).

His operation was part of a wider story of growing dominance by Albanian gangs in the UK’s burgeoning drug markets, with their success fuelled by violence, exploitation and human smuggling. Cozminca’s ...