Kings Of Cocaine: How The Albanian Mafia Seized Control Of The UK Drug Trade • Discoverology

Kings Of Cocaine: How The Albanian Mafia Seized Control Of The UK Drug Trade

Cities, Crime

Hellbanianz belong to the “retail game” of the cocaine trade. They are the street dealers and enforcers of the Mafia Shqiptare, the Albanian organised criminal syndicates who, the National Crime Agency believe, are consolidating power within the UK criminal underworld and on their way to a near total takeover of the UK’s £5bn cocaine market.

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