How young Albanians go from "bar's houses" to asylum in Britain

Daliy Mail has recently published an article describing how Albanian teenagers sneak into the UK and join drug gangs in order to be sent to prison and help their asylum claim.

The prestigious British newspaper, among other things, writes that young Albanians are being recruited to work on cannabis farms or to distribute drugs in Britain. 

Full article:

Albanian teenagers are sneaking into the UK and joining drug gangs with the aim of being sent to prison and helping their asylum claim. 

Desperate young people, according to the British media, are ending up in some cafes that are used as a cover for illegal activities by gangs like the Hellbanianz and are soon recruited to work on cannabis farms or to distribute drugs on British properties. Closely watched by the gangs, the teenagers work to pay off their debt to people smugglers before sending money home.

If caught by police, the men end up in jail because mafia lawyers use a legal loophole to block deportation to Albania by claiming they were victims of modern slavery, a gang expert has claimed. The revelation comes as Albanians made up the largest proportion of arrivals in the UK from just one country by small boat at 28% last year, equating to 12,561 people.

Albanian gangs have seized control of the UK cocaine economy over the past 20 years after forging an alliance with Latin American drug cartels. Among them is the Hellbanianz gang based on the Gascoigne estate in Barking, East London. The infamous group flaunt their wealth by sharing videos on social media of their flashy sports cars, jewelry and wads of cash.

Arrogant and unafraid of the police, the masked Hellbanianz gangsters even released music videos showing armored vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns parading around a London flat. Drug gang members happily pose in quiet British prisons in stylish tracksuits with 'Hellbanianz' or 'HB' graffiti scrawled on their cell walls. Albanian journalist and gang expert Muhamed Veliu told MailOnline that gangsters in the UK become role models for poor youth in their native country.

But such is the need for money – gangs don't even need to recruit illegal immigrants once they arrive in our cities and towns.

He said: 'Albanian youths arrive in the UK to make quick money and pay off the debt they incur during the transition. They go to [Albanian] cafes and connect with cannabis farm organizers or drug dealers to sell cocaine. They are willing to become cannabis farmers to pay off the debt quickly and earn good money to bring back home.

“They don't have permission to work in the UK and they can't work on construction sites because they will be banned for not having the correct documents - so this is the fastest way to make money. "Gangs don't go to recruit them - teenagers come to them because they're desperate."

He said: “When cannabis farms are discovered by the police, the gangs send their lawyers to monitor the interview process. So, in most cases they are advised to plead guilty to get a lesser sentence.

"At the same time, lawyers tell clients to seek asylum and say they are victims of modern slavery. They plead guilty immediately, but then seek asylum to block deportation as a victim. This is the reason why we have seen the Albanian community as the largest number of asylum requests under the Modern Slavery Act",