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The British journalist meets the Albanian smuggler with a dinghy, the young man: Business has never been better!

2023-11-19 11:34:56Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The British journalist meets the Albanian smuggler with a dinghy, the young man:

The British media have returned to the issue of Albanian clandestines. The journalists of " Express " arrived in Tirana, where they spoke closely with a smuggler, who stated that he benefits from this activity 50 thousand pounds a year.

"This business has never been better for those who benefit from crossings with small ships" , declared Dini, the pseudonym of the Albanian smuggler.

He claimed that there are 200-500 Albanian immigrants per day who contact him to arrange illegal trips to Britain.

The main draw, Dimi told the British Express, is the perception that Britain is rich and large sums can be earned from work, especially for those willing to work on cannabis farms.

"All the people want England because England has money," he said. "They come because they want to work in drug houses [cannabis farms] or because they have family members. I've never counted the number of people going to England, but it's high, maybe 6,000 last year,” he added.

The British newspaper says that the Albanian smuggler looks with skepticism at the figures released by the British government, which says that the number of immigrants crossing the channel has decreased.

"He is not seeing any decline in the number of people risking everything to travel to Britain," the paper writes.

"Maybe something has changed in England's strategy [in 2022], that's why they got caught. But it was the same number [arriving in the UK in 2023 as] in recent years," the Albanian said.

Outlining the way his criminal enterprise operates, Dini confirmed many of the findings of an earlier undercover Express investigation into smuggling, which found the operations were being run from the UK and were using social media to market their services. for Albanians who wanted to make the dangerous journey.

"I have two roles," he explained. "I take money from the families of immigrants who have reached Britain and talk to clients on social media who want to go to England from Albania. I have contacts in England who are my friends, and I speak to the Kurds in France who organize boat crossings."

Dini, who says he became a smuggler while friends organized crossings from Britain, explained that he collected detailed personal information about migrants, which was used by Kurdish gangs to correctly identify paying customers and ensure no one avoided the £4,000 travel fee.

Payment must only be made once the journey has been successfully completed, so we asked Dean how those held at Border Force facilities were managing to contact smugglers to confirm a safe landing.

"I don't like to give too many details about the payment," he replied. "I would not like to answer this question. My contacts in England are known. I would like to skip this part.”

Dini repeated several times the claim that his crossings in the Channel were "safe".

"From my accounts I make posts saying 'this day we are going by boat to England, write me for the details'. The videos go viral in no time and people start contacting me. I run three different profiles, one has 3,000 followers, one has 10,000 and the third has 11,000. I have clients from all walks of life, families, 16-year-olds and men who want to go to England to change their lives.”

While Dini acknowledged that prosecution by the authorities was a risk, the fear that really concerns him is retaliation from the families of those he trafficks if the worst happens.

He added: " If something goes wrong on the boat, it's a big problem for me, because if a person dies, his family will try to find me. Those families can kill me and say 'you did this to my child'.

"This has never happened before, at least for me, but one day it may happen. There is a danger whenever they get on the boat because there are always more people than there should be. This type of business is very complicated. It is well organized, I am only a part of it. There are a lot of people making decisions and organizing other details.”


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