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A 'South American tsunami' of cocaine has flooded Europe. At the centre of it is the fearsome Albanian mafia and their deadly alliance with Columbia's biggest cocaine clan.
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00:01International organized crime has no natural predator.
00:06Crime syndicates are expanding and forging alliances across the globe.
00:15As law enforcement struggle to stop them, up to 5% of the global economy is now in criminal hands.
00:23I'm Paul Radu and for the past 20 years I have investigated international organized crime.
00:30It's one of 400 billion and this is a very, very small slice of what's really going on.
00:36I think there are some people, let's go, let's go.
00:40In this series I'm working with a team of reporters around the world.
00:44Are you angry with yourself for being part of this?
00:48To discover how a generation of international gangs are redrawing the criminal map.
01:01Cocaine seizures in Europe have reached record levels.
01:05Britain is at the epicenter with the highest number of users.
01:10Talid Udin was described as pivotal to a cocaine distribution operation which sourced large quantities of the drug from Albanian
01:19smugglers.
01:20A British government report in 2020 found the cocaine market here is dominated by Albanian gangs whose supply network stretches
01:28across British towns and cities.
01:31Albanian national Eral Mema sourced and distributed deliveries of cocaine.
01:36I want to know how a small country on the southeast edge of Europe with a population of just 2
01:41.8 million is able to supply Europe's biggest market.
01:46To see how widely their cocaine distribution network has spread, I'm starting my investigation with the upper echelons of British
01:53society.
01:54I was asked to wear a suit tonight because we've been invited to an illegal elite mansion party in central
02:02London.
02:03We were invited by some members of the Bullingdon Club, which is an elite drinking club at Oxford University that
02:10counts David Cameron, Boris Johnson, a slew of prime ministers amongst its ranks.
02:16We're pretty certain there's going to be cocaine there.
02:21Londoners consume half a million lines of cocaine a day, twice as much as any other European city, making it
02:30a highly lucrative market for cocaine cartels.
02:34One floor up is the sex room apparently. We're not allowed to film up there for obvious reasons.
02:42And then here is the one room that we're allowed to film in for the rest of the night.
02:54So do you use cocaine?
02:56I do indeed.
02:57How much of that do you think you'll use in a night?
02:59Oh, I could go through maybe two grabs for myself.
03:03If you were to order cocaine right now, how quickly would it arrive?
03:06I'd say 25 minutes.
03:08You got someone who's on time, eh?
03:10Who do you buy it from?
03:11I have an Albanian friend that I go to.
03:14Albanian?
03:14Yes.
03:15What's different about him compared to other dealers?
03:17Ooh, so much more efficient.
03:19It's not just wealthy Londoners buying from Albanians.
03:23The gangs have expanded their territory so fast, they've had to recruit teenagers to move their product throughout the suburbs.
03:32I was, like, 13, 14.
03:34I wanted to help my mom out with rent, sort of thing.
03:37But, like, dragged into it by some Albanians.
03:40That's how I got into it first, really.
03:41There's always, like, banging gangs about it.
03:43There's, like, a 24-7 service.
03:44You call them up any time of the day.
03:46They'll come drop you, just give them an address.
03:48It's like McDonald's, but for drugs.
03:50As well as selling straight to users, they've also taken over the wholesale distribution of cocaine to the trap houses
03:57that local gangs use to cut it and wash it into crack.
04:01They've cornered the market at the moment.
04:04If you cross them, they're going to use violence.
04:06Kidnapping, taken away and not to be returned again.
04:09They'll just make you disappear.
04:13This reputation for violence is no rumour.
04:17On the streets of East London, a gang called the Hellbanians are ready for war.
04:26These drill music videos made for the Hellbanians aren't empty threats.
04:31Several members not seen here have been sentenced to life for cocaine supply and armed assault.
04:40Despite their craving for views on YouTube, their lyrics show they're incredibly secretive.
04:45They'll be checked.
04:47They don't have a complaint.
04:48They won't be a complaint.
04:49They won't be a complaint.
04:51They won't be a complaint.
04:52They'll be caught up on the reserve.
04:53They'll be checked in a moment.
04:55A few moments later...
04:56Our fixer is...
04:58I spoke to him.
04:59He's here.
05:00He reckons that that's them.
05:02I guess we should have to keep waiting.
05:03All right, peace.
05:06We spent weeks trying to meet with the Albanian gangs in Britain,
05:09arranging clandestine night-time meetings in back-street car parks.
05:13One of them came very close to one of our vans, shined their lights into our vans, looked at us
05:19for about 40 seconds, and then zoomed off, and then all of the cars zoomed off.
05:25So what I'm thinking might have happened is these gangs are paranoid and they do their own kind of counter
05:30-surveillance.
05:32The gangs follow an ancient code of honour called BESA, which forbids them from speaking to outsiders.
05:39If you violate BESA, there will be effects of that back in Albania. Someone with your family will be hurt.
05:50It's absolute control for them because you'll always have family, and Albania is a small country, everybody knows everybody, and
05:57you don't want your family to be at risk because of your actions somewhere abroad.
06:02Albania, being one of the poorest countries in Europe, bred some of the most violent crime in Europe.
06:08This is how you keep on projecting strength through violence, and that's key to organized crime, for people to be
06:17afraid of them.
06:18If the London-based Albanian gangs are impossible to infiltrate, maybe their suppliers in Colombia will speak to me.
06:25So I'll put you in touch with someone who's going to meet you in Medellin.
06:46I'll put you in touch with someone who's going to meet you in Medellin.
06:58It's 3 a.m. in London, and we've just managed to make contact with someone very high up in the
07:05Clan del Golfo, which is Colombia's biggest drug trafficking organization.
07:10And he's the one who deals directly with the Albanian mafia, so we're going to give him a call.
07:23What's the relationship between the Clan del Golfo and the Albanian mafia?
07:34Are they different to other clients?
07:45Seven tons of cocaine every few weeks.
07:49I'd say almost $8 billion worth of cocaine every year, just to the Albanian mafia.
07:58So are there Albanian criminal members in Colombia who the Clan deals with?
08:2770% of the world's cocaine is still produced in Colombia,
08:31and the Clan del Golfo control most of it.
08:37A right-wing paramilitary group, the U.S. government has designated them as one of the top five transnational organized
08:44crime gangs in the world.
08:47For the first time ever, they've given a film crew full access to their international trafficking operation.
08:54They hope showing their power and global reach will help them secure a peace deal with the Colombian government.
09:18The Clan has told us they have everyone from commercial pilots to staff in Colombia.
09:23the Colombian air-traffic control on their payroll.
09:40Officially, this private cargo plane is making a legitimate flight from Bogotá to Caracas.
09:46But the clan have ordered it to stop at a clandestine airfield.
09:50Their cargo must cross the border in time for an onward shipment to Europe.
10:07The Colombian military have a shoot-down policy for narcoplanes.
10:11So the pilots can only switch off their radar transponder for a few minutes before it looks suspicious.
10:17It's fast and concentrated, like the green light with the door.
10:22Let's go, let's go, let's go.
10:26Let's go, let's go.
10:28Let's go, let's go.
10:29Let's go, let's go, let's go.
10:30Let's go, let's go, let's go.
10:39Let's go, let's go.
10:41Pau words, soldiers, soldiers up here!
10:41So the government lets take thousands of these flights every week
10:42to feed our global demand for cocaine.
10:49The United States have spent over 1 trillion dollars on the war on drugs.
10:54much of it in Colombia.
10:56The DEA have downed Escobar and the Cali cartel,
11:00but cocaine production is still going up.
11:04Paul Radu spent two years in Colombia investigating the cartels.
11:09In terms of the economics of cocaine, the impact was zero,
11:13and even it was the reverse of what the DEA intended,
11:17because what Escobar did, and with the other cartels,
11:23was they presented the world with the proof that this is a lucrative industry,
11:29that this is worth getting into, that this is real business.
11:35Clandel Golfo is one of the most successful Colombian criminal organizations right now,
11:42because they've understood that they can infiltrate politics
11:45in a way that's different than what Escobar tried, right?
11:49Escobar tried to be not only the leader of the cartel they want,
11:53and he wanted to be the face of the cartel.
11:55He wanted everything. He wanted too much.
11:57And these people are a lot more low-key.
12:00They are operating behind the scenes.
12:02They are corrupting politicians, not only in Colombia, but abroad as well.
12:06They're expanding quite well into Brazil.
12:09And what's interesting about Clandel Golfo is that they developed their own kind of security companies.
12:16And they've employed people from the army, people with military experience,
12:21people who've been trained sometimes by the US military.
12:26So it's a military knowledge when it comes to the physical defense.
12:30Then there's the military knowledge when it comes to the digital defense.
12:34And they coupled these together very well to kind of form a PMC, a private military company,
12:40that's very, very successful at this type of trade.
12:44I don't think the DEA can stop them at this point in time.
12:56Our Colombian crew are traveling to the Gulf of Yoruba,
13:00the heartland of the clan's cocaine operation.
13:03They use the cover of the dense jungle to hide the cocaine,
13:07and the vast river network to traffic onto container ships destined for Europe.
13:12To enter this area, we need the permission of the clan's regional commander and head of security.
13:18He has a reputation for violence, but is ironically nicknamed Baby.
13:23He is constantly flanked by a hitman named Flocko.
13:28What's that?
13:28Before we pass it, you know, in a security protocol.
13:32What do you understand?
13:33On the camera, you understand what the phone is.
13:35What's thoseuggestion.
13:36If you just pass, you understand what the phone is.
13:38If I notice, we have 45 minutes or whatever we have available.
13:43Please use the phone.
13:44If you pass the phone.
13:45If you pass one-one, I'll give you a racket.
13:49Proceed, please.
13:52A bleiben quinside, eh?
14:05I'm a commander, a lot of people know me as Romer, as Baby.
14:10My territory is a sonora.
14:13How do you protect drugs, for example, when you're in a war?
14:18With life.
14:19That's the only thing I bring here.
14:21I bring it to the people who come here.
14:24How can it be the law, how can it be the pirates, as I say.
14:28No, it's not that the enemy will disappear.
14:30No, it's not that the one who doesn't know one has to die.
14:33This is a single family.
14:34Do you have to justice or kill a friend of mine for a loss of drugs?
14:42Even to drink his marijuana in a row.
14:45Even to take a barrette, because that's a shame of death.
14:48You've been crushed.
14:50You've found one with the mouth open, even without his head.
14:53There are albaneses here in Colombia?
14:57Yes, there are several people.
14:59They want to have an empire to govern.
15:02I tell you, the rivalry.
15:04Because many lives pay even for that.
15:07They're not a little bit, they're a lot.
15:09How much is it?
15:09How much is it?
15:10As I say, the money and the drug,
15:12it's a lot of people.
15:15If money they don't have one to pay at the moment.
15:17You have to give a lot of money.
15:20You have to give a lot of money.
15:21This company and this family has changed a lot.
15:27This department has changed a lot of lives.
15:38So no, I think in this world I think it's very difficult to get out of here.
16:28Hey Matt, I want to give you an update because yesterday we were filming a baby's interview.
16:36Okay, how'd it go?
16:38The police were going in circles and they basically stopped, so the clan guys were about to do a shooting
16:45to the police.
16:46So yeah, we just had to cut and just run away from there because it became really dangerous.
16:53You got out of there, okay, that's good.
16:56Is there going to be a shipment coming out soon that we can film?
16:58Yeah, actually we've just been told that they're moving ahead with a shipment.
17:03So we're going to go to the dock and try to catch that.
17:07All right, thanks man. Bye.
17:15Before we get to see how the clan smuggle 100 kilos onto international bound container ships,
17:21Baby and his soldiers want to show us an air hangar previously owned by Pablo Escobar, who the clan revere.
17:29This place is the place where Pablo used to traffic and enter insumos based on coca.
17:37This is a place where we are always going to be pretend and we are going to take care of
17:40it even with the blood.
17:42Because it's a property that was a inheritance that we gave Pablo Escobar.
18:05The war on drugs in Colombia has claimed 215,000 lives.
18:11Baby and his crew were recruited at a young age.
18:25The DEA spent 20 years and billions of dollars trying to capture Escobar and dismantle his trafficking network.
18:3220 years on, the new owners of this airfield are trafficking just as much, if not more, cocaine.
18:39The FBI have now placed a $5 million bounty on the head of the clan del Golfo.
18:50The clan have spotters in every town and have noticed a window of opportunity.
18:55The large police presence that was in the area last night has left.
19:02They now have two hours to move 100 kilos of cocaine downriver to a Europe bound container ship.
19:16And as you can see, they don't have much time to use.
19:20We have the point of exit.
19:22They can't wait to see you.
20:02The clan gets spooked by word from their spotters that police have reappeared in the
20:07area, so they frantically look for a new drop-off spot.
20:14Then the man and go, there's a lot of water to the ground.
20:25The water is in the area and it's just for a little bit to get out of there.
20:35The water is in the area, so that the water is off of the ground.
20:38The water is in the area, so that the water is free.
20:59The clan have hidden the cocaine in the dense jungle near the mouth of the river.
21:03Next, a speedboat will come to deliver it from here to a Europe-bound container ship in the Caribbean Sea.
21:18While container ships account for the route to Europe, the cocaine destined for the American market must first make it
21:24across the border with Panama.
21:27A shipment needs to leave this afternoon.
21:33Heavy border patrols by the Panamanian security forces make it incredibly difficult to cross by road.
21:50But the clan has developed a creative new way to make sure the shipment goes right over their heads.
21:56Now you can see what's going on here.
21:59It's a big bag. Take it hard.
22:02That's it, baby.
22:03Let's see.
22:05Let's go.
22:06Let's go.
22:37I've arrived at the wildfires,
22:38but we're at the critical level of the road.
22:38Recojo y hago tallectos corticos, 20 kilómetros,
22:43simplemente como para esquivar los retenes por medio del bosque y de eso.
22:51La mercancía, el cargamento más grande que he llevado son 130 kilogramos de cocaína pura
22:59y el pago han sido 60 millones de pesos colombianos.
23:07Tenía muy buenas habilidades como deportista en el deporte del parapentismo,
23:12creo que pude haber representado a Colombia de la mejor manera,
23:16no tenía en ese entonces las posibilidades para hacerlo, para comprarme mis equipos
23:25y ya esta es mi vida, espero algún día.
23:36La mayoría de los clans de cocaína es mezclado por los carteles mexicanos en América.
23:40La mayoría de los cocaína, principalmente en cocaína,
23:43se va a el mercado europeo.
23:46La mafía de Albania ha abierto un nuevo camino para su país.
23:50La cocaína se ha luego mezclado en el sur de Europa.
23:55También se ha comenzado a coordinar directos para el britán.
24:00Félixstow es el mayor mayor de cocaína pura en el britán,
24:04y los Customs regularmente controla los equipos.
24:06Pero con más 400 millones de tonos de cocaína cada año,
24:10no es sorprendido que un estimado 90% de la cocaína se deslizó a través de la neta.
24:16¿Cómo sabes cuál es el cocaína para buscar?
24:18Porque seguramente hay millones de cocaína.
24:20Estamos intel-led en este port.
24:22Y en cuanto a cantidad de cocaína que se ven,
24:25no podemos esperar a hacer todas las cocaína.
24:27¿Dónde está el cocaína?
24:29Vamos a ver el cocaína.
24:30Este es un control de cocaína.
24:32¿Dónde voy a encontrarla y ver si puedo verlo?
24:34Sí, por favor.
24:36Espera un segundo.
24:38¿Qué está detrás de aquí?
24:39No se veía el cocaína.
24:41¿Es esto?
24:43Bueno.
24:43No se veía el cocaína.
24:44Hay casi 120 tonnes de cocaína
24:47que viene a los Estados Unidos cada año.
24:50Es un aumento de 300% desde 2011,
24:52y hace que los Estados Unidos
24:53sea el mayor consumidor de cocaína de cocaína en el continente.
24:57La mayoría de ellos viene en contenedores de cocaína como estos.
25:00Pero en el camino, algo increíble ocurre.
25:03En Colombia, el cocaína de 1 kilo de cocaína
25:07es worth $1,500.
25:09Por el tiempo que llegue aquí, es worth $77,000.
25:14Así que si hubiera llevado un cocaína de cocaína
25:16de Colombia a aquí,
25:18se hubiera un millonario instantáneamente.
25:20Es casi el más profundo de cocaína en todo el mundo.
25:26El cocaína de cocaína es worth $6.5 billones a año.
25:31Nos descubrimos que Colombia es clán del Golfo
25:34están trabajando en close alliance
25:36con el mafía de cocaína de cocaína en Estados Unidos.
25:39El cocaína de cocaína de cocaína en Estados Unidos
26:09es que los políticos aquí tienen asociaciones con narcotraficantes.
26:14El cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína.
26:17El cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína.
26:38El cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína de cocaína.
26:59Altin Hayri, from the Burg in Belgium,
27:02has been filed in Albania
27:03in relation to a breach
27:05of which a Albanian citizen was killed, Jan Prenge.
27:10This operation has been called
27:12to be created by the organized crime.
27:17In February 2020, this palace was seized by the Albanian police,
27:22following charges that the Hayri brothers kidnapped a man called Jan Prenge.
27:26Police believe Prenge's brother had stolen 285 kilograms of cocaine
27:31from the Hayri family after it landed in Portsmouth Harbor in Britain.
27:36The shipment had come from the clan del Golfo.
27:40Artan explains the police case against the Hayri brothers.
27:55He was killed. He was killed. He was killed.
28:00He was killed behind this complex,
28:02when he was told.
28:03When he was told, he was not killed.
28:05Can we take a closer look?
28:07Yes, please.
28:10The Hayri story demonstrates how cocaine is produced in Colombia,
28:15sold in England by the Albanian mafia,
28:18and then converted into real estate in Albania.
28:21So, if this has been confiscated,
28:25why are there not government officials and police guarding it?
28:28This is a big problem that we have with the law in Albania,
28:32and not with the organized crime.
28:34But we will say that the owners of the project,
28:38Liz and Hayri,
28:39have seen a lot of political people,
28:42and the characters are very dangerous in Albania.
28:46and they are very dangerous in order for the police,
28:50so that they can secure all the objects.
28:57I think there are some people appearing.
29:00Yeah, let's...
29:01Okay, let's go.
29:02I can tell you,
29:03I can tell you that you can get the chant at the end.
29:05I can tell you that you are all of them.
29:08Okay, let's go.
29:09We are in trouble.
29:18All of them are in Lebanon.
29:24I can tell you that you are in Britain.
29:27But do you know?
29:30What do you know when they are in Argentina?
29:32How are you in Britain?
29:33I can tell you that you are in Britain.
29:33No, I can tell you that.
29:33No, I can tell them what they are.
29:33Okay, let's go.
29:37There was one of your family and her family.
29:40So, when one of the family and her family,
29:43I told you that you and the family will remember,
29:44What are we going to do? Why?
29:46Why?
29:47Why?
29:49Why?
29:50Let's go, let's go.
29:52Why?
29:54Why?
29:56Why?
29:57Why?
29:58Why?
29:59Why?
30:00Why?
30:02Why?
30:02Can we finish the interview in our car?
30:04Why?
30:05Why?
30:07Why?
30:10Why?
30:12Why?
30:12Why?
30:14Why?
30:17Why?
30:19Why?
30:20Why?
30:21Can you explain the connection between the Albanian mafia groups and the clan del Golfo?
30:27The idea of that is in America in Latin America,
30:31first of all, that is happening in the market.
30:33The idea of the coconut oil can be stored directly in origin,
30:37and it's minimal, and the idea of the coconut oil can be stored in the European Union.
30:47The idea of the coconut oil can be stored in the European Union,
30:56It is the first time I learned that the Klan and the Albanian Mafia were equal partners,
31:08sharing the billions they make in a 50-50 year.
31:15This is the first time I learned that the Klan and the Albanian Mafia were equal partners,
31:20sharing the billions they make in a 50-50 year.
31:25Drug traffickers have connections at the very highest levels of the Albanian government.
31:30In 2019, former Minister of the Interior Saimir Tahiri received a three-year sentence for abuse of power.
31:38The court found he had inexplicable links to a distant cousin convicted of trafficking 3.8 tons of drugs to
31:46Italy.
31:47Tahiri was cleared of a further charge of trafficking and denies all charges,
31:51but the Court of Appeal has now ordered a retrial.
31:58To understand how Albania became so corrupt, you have to go back to 1997.
32:06That was the year that the entire economy collapsed,
32:09when it turned out two-thirds of the population had their money invested in pyramid schemes
32:14operated by companies supported by the government.
32:17In the chaos that followed, criminal gangs took control of several Albanian cities
32:23and opened up the military's arsenals to the public.
32:26Hundreds of millions in currency was stolen from government treasuries.
32:38You look at the 90s, you look at the fall of communism,
32:41these are lowless times in all over Eastern Europe,
32:44but in particular in a country like Albania,
32:47that started off in a very bad place too, you know,
32:51because communism was a different breed in Albania.
32:56People were starving in Albania.
32:59That's the point where criminals really started getting a grasp of the society
33:04because the government was not able to govern at all.
33:08After the fall of the communism,
33:10the people who were working in the security forces of the state,
33:14in the intelligence services, found themselves on their own.
33:18Now, what they had was the know-how.
33:22They knew exactly how to set up an offer type of company in Luxembourg
33:26or how to open a bank account in Switzerland.
33:29They had contacts in all these places, informants that they built over time.
33:33So this is when organized crime started developing on the back of the former communist secret services.
33:43They actually started taking over entire economies.
33:46We have members of the parliament connected to organized crime.
33:51In Albania, unfortunately, it started with the local level,
33:55mayors of towns, of cities, connected straight to organized crime,
34:00elected because organized crime is backing them.
34:03And you have criminals themselves getting elected.
34:07It's why you see politicians, you know, on the right of the spectrum,
34:10you know, cooperating with the leftists without any problem
34:13because in the end you don't have left and right.
34:16So politics is just a cover-up, many times,
34:20for the real business that happens behind the scenes.
34:25We're trying to speak to one of the Albanian mafia's top smugglers
34:29to see how this endemic corruption allows them to transport cocaine across Europe.
34:41In terms of him, is he under much police surveillance?
34:47Yes.
34:48Yes.
34:49Yes.
34:49Yes.
34:49From the Albanian police.
34:51Yes.
34:52Yes.
34:52Yes, thank you.
34:53Yes.
34:54We can get to the border between Albania and Montenegro in about two to three hours.
35:09We've finally managed to get in touch with someone high up in the Albanian mafia.
35:13He's one of the top smugglers in the Balkans.
35:15So he traffics cocaine and arms for the Albanian mafia.
35:19He is called Lucky.
35:21He's actually one of the most wanted men in Europe.
35:24And because he's under complete surveillance in Albania by the police,
35:28we're having to travel across the border into Montenegro to meet with him.
35:33Once through the border, we're told to pack down our cameras
35:36and follow Lucky's car to another location.
35:46So how did you get the nickname Lucky?
35:49I got shot here plenty of times.
35:52I'm alive.
35:54Plenty of my friends, they're dead.
35:56My brother is dead.
35:58They shot him 13 times.
35:59It's not easy.
36:01This life is, forget about it.
36:03I would not like to do my kids that.
36:05Well, once you go in it, you can get out.
36:07You understand?
36:08Yeah.
36:09So the Albanians killed your brother, but you still work for them?
36:12Yeah.
36:13Two years ago, they killed my friend.
36:15They killed him.
36:16They killed his wife.
36:17They killed his wife?
36:18Yeah.
36:18With the stone.
36:20That's the law that they shoot him in the back.
36:22They killed his wife with the stone.
36:23Who killed him?
36:25Albanians.
36:27Because he sold some money.
36:29So is that one of the main ways that the Albanian mafia
36:33keeps hold of its power by murdering people who tried to take over?
36:37Once you give Bessa, that's it.
36:39You have to die.
36:41You cannot give up the Bessa.
36:43You understand what I'm saying?
36:45Yeah.
36:46Are you always carrying a weapon on you?
36:48I have to.
36:56Have you ever had to kill someone yourself?
37:00I don't like to answer that.
37:02Have you ever had a gun battle with the police?
37:06Yeah.
37:07Can you tell me that story?
37:09Please, no.
37:09Because he shot himself, you know?
37:11The police shot himself?
37:12Yeah.
37:13By accident?
37:14By accident.
37:15I don't know.
37:16Right.
37:17Did he definitely shoot himself?
37:19Or is that just the story?
37:21Let's go to the next story.
37:22What do you usually traffic across borders?
37:25Show him the video.
37:28Yeah.
37:33God bless Albania.
37:39Have you ever bought cocaine from the Clan del Golfo in Colombia?
37:44Of course.
37:46We keep good relationship.
37:48Otherwise, there's no hope.
37:51Goes from Colombia with the big bots.
37:55Sometimes come to Albania.
37:56From here we go.
37:58Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia, across the borders.
38:01We pay the police sometimes, you know?
38:03We pay big companies with the trucks.
38:06You understand?
38:06All across Europe is corruption.
38:09Politicians, police.
38:11I had to take six kilos from Albania to Croatia.
38:15I passed one border.
38:17Somebody snitched me.
38:18And they catch me 10 kilometers from the border.
38:22They catch us four.
38:23We could not skate.
38:24Could not shoot because there was, like, 50 cops.
38:28And only two years and a half for six kilos.
38:30So it was quite easy for you to pay your way out of a prison?
38:33Not me.
38:34Somebody else.
38:34Someone you worked for?
38:36Yeah.
38:36For six kilos.
38:37Only two years and a half.
38:38Think about it.
38:39Yeah.
38:43He was very on edge and was very reluctant to give any detail
38:46about things like why he's been the victim of murder attempts,
38:51why his brother was murdered, whether he's killed anyone.
38:53But the picture he painted of Europe was one of corruption.
39:00Basically, it's not some high tech method that smugglers use to feed the massive demand
39:07for tons and tons of cocaine across this continent.
39:09It's money.
39:10They just pay officials in every country.
39:13They pay politicians, border officials, shipping companies.
39:16And the profit is so huge that paying off officials is easy for them.
39:23After smugglers like Lucky transport the cocaine, an army of super-fast Albanian couriers
39:29based in every major European city distribute it.
39:32And they're all controlled from here.
39:35Artan has provided for us a source who is basically someone who has worked in London
39:42for a very powerful Albanian mafia family as a drug dealer for many years.
39:49And he's now come back to Albania.
39:51So we're going to meet him on the terrace over here.
39:54Can you tell me a little bit about your job in London?
40:05How is the group that you are working for able to get cocaine delivered so quickly to customers
40:11all over London?
40:11How is it?
40:15How is it?
40:16How is it?
40:16How is it?
40:17How is it?
40:19How is it?
40:21How is it?
40:21How is it?
40:22How is it?
40:22How is it?
40:22How is it?
40:23The Chapia family run an international drug trafficking network, and police suspect members
40:28of the Chapia family are connected to dozens of murders.
40:32The Albanian prime minister was photographed standing next to the head of the Chapia family.
40:37But when asked on Albanian TV, he refused to answer questions about any ties.
40:44London-based street gangs like the Albanians get all the press.
40:48But it's families like this that hold all the power.
41:06How have these Albanian groups managed to take over the cocaine trade in London?
41:11I have one of my police, and I have one of my police, and I have one of them.
41:17It's very clear.
41:18It's because you are a family, and it's normally going to be sharing these things.
41:25The people in London are people in the state of London.
41:29The people in London are people in the state of London.
41:40back in Albania.
41:53I want to know how so many young Albanians
41:56end up in this terrifying servitude.
42:00Around 70% of Albanians in prison in the UK
42:04are recruited from the country's impoverished
42:06northern regions.
42:09If you're in London and you have an Albania
42:10and coke dealer, there's a high chance
42:12that they come from Haas, which is in the
42:14northern mountains of Albania, and it's one
42:16of the poorest districts in the country.
42:17The average salary in Albania is around
42:19330 euros a month.
42:21Here, it's even lower.
42:23A lot of young people who live here aim to
42:25leave and work in the cocaine market abroad.
42:27And the biggest cocaine market is the UK.
42:31Zamir is the only person from his class
42:34who hasn't left Haas to go to the UK.
42:55Have many of the people who've left Haas to go work
42:58in England ended up working in the drug trade?
43:00Yes.
43:02Yes.
43:15They're working for the Albanian mafia in London.
43:18Yes.
43:20Have you heard any of the Albanian gangster rap
43:22that's coming out of cities like London?
43:24Yes.
43:25It's a group called Haas of Albania.
43:28Yes.
43:28It's a group called Haas of Albania.
43:32Do you find the lifestyle that the
43:35Albanians advertise in their music videos appealing?
43:38Yes.
43:40Really?
43:40Yes.
43:41I think they're all in the same way.
43:44They're all in the same way.
43:45They're all in the same way.
43:46They're all in the same way.
43:47They're all in the same way.
43:48How realistic do you think that lifestyle is?
43:50Do you think that the music videos are an accurate
43:52portrayal of what reality as a cocaine dealer in London is?
43:56Yes.
43:58Yes.
44:01How much money is it to get to London?
44:03I don't know.
44:04I don't know.
44:05I don't know.
44:07I don't know.
44:08I don't know.
44:08I don't know.
44:09I don't know for a moment.
44:13The Albanian mafia are ready and waiting to smuggle Zamir to London.
44:17And when he gets here, to entrap him in an exploitative and dangerous criminal economy
44:21that's almost impossible to escape.
44:23But with little employment in Haas and the siren call of a wealthy lifestyle selling cocaine
44:28on London's streets, it's difficult to see why people like Zamir don't take the chance.
44:32These problems might seem far away to people actually doing cocaine in London.
44:36But the city of London is the global money laundering capital of the drug trade.
44:41With hundreds of billions of dirty pounds passing through here.
44:45The Colombian cartels, the Albanian mafia families, the cocaine users in London,
44:49and the banks of Western Europe are all connected.
44:53They're all part of the same economy.
44:57Bankers are extremely important in the criminal game.
45:01They created a ready-made system that was handed like on a plate to criminals saying,
45:07do you have some money to launder?
45:08We have this opportunity for you.
45:11We do have this great opportunity.
45:13We do have the companies.
45:14We do have the bank accounts.
45:16We do have the money channels.
45:18We do have the invoices.
45:19And this is how you need to use our services.
45:22So the criminals don't even have to move at all.
45:25Everything is just a few clicks away.
45:52Bye.
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