UK News & Investigations

FOUR Brits, including a single mum, who are alleged to have been in a "murder squad" that carried out reconnaissance before a businessman was shot to death in his own five-star hotel bar in Albania have avoided extradition on a technicality. Edmond Haxhia, 40, the British-Albanian accused of arranging the hit as part of a more than 25-year-long "blood feud", has also avoided extradition after the Court of Appeal discharged each of their extradition requests. The court heard t

AN ALBANIAN money launderer who was involved in trying to move £8 million cash from the UK, could keep his British Citizenship if the Home Office fails to convince Supreme Court judges that its revocation was lawful. Gjelosh Kolicaj, 44, (above) was born in Albania, but came to the UK in 2005 and was granted the controversail indefinite leave to remain. On 5 February 2009, he was naturalised as a British citizen and became a dual national with Albian and British citizenship.

TWO brothers alleged to be at the heart of a plot to supply Albanian crime gangs in the UK with deadly firearms brought a deadly "blood feud" with them when they fled to London, a court heard today. Albanians  Alban Gjidaj, 29, and older brother Almir Gjidaj , 34, (above middle) were senior members of an organised crime group involved in smuggling guns hidden in standard deliveries from Albania to the UK, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard. Albania is seeking the extraditio

An Albanian, alleged to have been among seven people found on a yacht suspected to be carrying illegal migrants, that was intercepted in...

Albanian criminals worked with a Bulgarian business owner to import one of the biggest ever hauls of cocaine into the UK from South...

AN Albanian woman has been jailed for seven and a half years after a National Crime Agency investigation found that she had acted as a...

AN ALBANIAN organised crime group, which worked with a British national, was caught by a well-used National Crime Agency (NCA) sting to...

MORE than 200 Albanian defendants were listed to appear at crown courts up and down the country over just ten days, an Essex News and...

AN ALBANIAN drug dealer, who supplied more than £1million of cocaine in just four months, discussed property purchases in his homeland on...

A JUDGE dismissed claims by two Albanian men that they were coerced into working at a huge cannabis factory set up in redundant offices....