This is the Albanian gangster who became a millionaire with drugs in Britain

The leader of a large-scale cannabis gang has been ordered to pay less than a tenth of the 1.7 million pounds he made from selling drugs.

Fatos Meta used his construction business as a facade for an organised crime organisation that transported two-thirds of a ton of cannabis to Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. He recruited workers from his business and others, among them and a student, to transfer drugs to Devon at three points of distribution. As British media write, Albanian-born Meta did more than 1.7 million from business, but after a two-year investigation under the Crime Revenue Law managed to track assets worth 148,237 pounds.

Meta will be forced to sell a house he owns in Wolverhampton and the shares he owned in his construction company to pay for the seizure order.

The wife, who lives in Albania along with the children, claimed she possessed half of the property, but such a claim was rejected by Judge Timothy Rose at the Exeter Court. The 47-year-old must return the money in three months or serve 15 months more in prison than the five-year sentence. Meta accepted three counts in connection with the supply of cannabis.