Albanians Control Britain's Drug Market

The violent Albanian criminal groups are exercising significant “control of” on the United Kingdom drug trafficking market.

So said a report by the country's National Crime Agency.

NCA points out that she was always concerned by what was called “the impact of Albanians' high profile on organised crime in the United Kingdom”.

The remarks are made in the agency's annual assessment of the nature and scale of serious and organised crime in the United Kingdom.

The report also warned of the threat of cybercrime by Russian countries.

NCA said profits in the drug trade remained “substial” against international efforts.

Among those who appeared as a key <x0 threat” were Albanian gangs which the agency said had special impact on the cocaine market.

Officials said gangs were characterised by their willingness to use serious violence, the clan Kosova broadcasts.

London is their top “ ”, the report says, among other things, but they were founded throughout the United Kingdom.

NCA Deputy Director General Matthew Horne said: “It's a very small but huge impact group”.

“We have seen violence shows, especially about the implementation of the drug trade, in this group”.

The report also said that Serbian and Turkish criminal groups “do have the naval logistics of cocaine”, while Turkish and Pakistani groups “continue to dominate heroin trafficking in Great Britain”, reports the BBC.