Sweeping across the country at a terrifying pace, Albanian gangs have rapidly taken over the UK’s drug market – and all the crime that comes with it.
Picking off local groups one by one, Balkan kingpins have built up a near insurmountable dominance over the criminal underworld using links to Colombian cartels to secure the best value cocaine and violently exacting revenge on those who dare oppose them.
But now they have competition.
As the UK’s demographics change rapidly, emerging gangs have been viewing the Albanian success story from afar – and they want a piece of it.
While rivals boldly muscle into established
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