
The clash between the Albanian gangs was at the center of a British media article.
In an interview with an Albanian prosecutor, the British media concludes that what starts in Britain as conflicts over drug deals and as attempts to control the market for the sale of narcotics, ends in Albania with murders and executions.
Chief Prosecutor Kreshnik Ajazi has connected the series of murders with revenge, a feature of our country.
The Sun writes that the fact that the prosecutor has dedicated his life to the fight against crime has also come at a cost.
He is guarded all the time by bodyguards and 28 security cameras have been placed outside his office building in the city of Elbasan.
"The disputes between the gangs are created in England, but the revenge happens in our city. When I became chief prosecutor, my goal was to challenge the gangs. This means that I am now accompanied every minute of my life by a special escort from the state police, who shows what kind of danger I am in. But it was worth it," he said.
Meanwhile, British and Albanian authorities work closely to fight gangs and organized crime.
The National Crime Agency last month signed a deal with Albanian police to challenge criminals who control the UK cannabis market.
Around 1,700 gang members are thought to be at large in the UK and there are more Albanians in British prisons than any other foreign nationality, even though Albania has a population of just 2.8 million.
In addition to trying to arrest gang leaders, the police are hitting them where it hurts, in their pockets.
A British-registered Lamborghini worth £200,000 was recently seized from a suspected criminal, along with a hotel he owned. The vehicle will now be used by the police force.
"Despite the war being waged by both countries to fight crime, the problem is that revenge is a tradition in Albania, so we cannot predict what will happen", says Ajazi.
Organized crime gangs are similar to the mafia in terms of how they are structured and how fate is all about family. Therefore, disputes are taken personal and so is their solution.
In 2018, a shipment of 50 kilograms of cocaine, with a potential market value of tens of millions of pounds, disappeared in England.
The gang awaiting its delivery became suspicious of the courier, so they beat him up and dumped him in a remote location, figuring that whoever he had alerted to steal the drugs would come to their rescue.
They kept watch to see who would take it – and once they learned which family was behind the theft, the killings began.
Shortly after, Endrit Alibe j, 34, was driving away from a family dinner in Elbasan with his uncle Arben Dylgjeri, 56, and a Turkish associate.
As they slowed to a roundabout, a gunman with an AK-47 rammed the vehicle, killing all three occupants.
Alibey's family wasted no time in getting revenge and the killings continued for two years, claiming a total of eight lives.
Mr. Ajazi said that the mutual attacks on that particular dispute have ended – for now.
Another case is when in 2013 Albanian drug dealer Arben Lleshi, 27, was jailed for life at Winchester Crown Court for murdering a rival in Southampton and burning his body.
He was extradited to serve his sentence in Beijing's high-security prison, late last year his victim's gang began planning revenge.
They spent around one million euros to bribe prison officials to smuggle weapons into the prison and pay a hitman.
The gun was handed over to the killer in mid-November and he kept it hidden for three weeks before going to Lleshi's cell ten days before Christmas.
"He invited that man to speak. He said: 'Can we have a conversation?' And at this moment, he took out his gun and shot and killed him", explains the prosecutor.
The entire command structure of the prison has been arrested, 12 officers in total, on suspicion of taking bribes./Taken from The Sun, adapted by VoxNews .