How Albanian drug barons are making a mockery of Britain’s immigration system by sneaking back despite being deported
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WHEN police busted Bujar Cozminca for flooding Britain with £8million worth of cocaine, they were dealing with a familiar face. The Albanian gangster, 33 had already been booted out of the country on drugs charges nine years earlier, yet was easily able to sneak back into the UK to build up his criminal empire.
![[Bujar Cozminca was deported for conspiracy to supply drugs in 2012 and arrested in 2019 for an £8million criminal empire]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sun-features-albanian-criminals-grace-951295545.png?strip=all&w=414)
He is one of a growing number of high-profile Albanians nicknamed the Boomerang Gang. They are making a mockery of Britain’s immigration system — sneaking in and out of the UK despite being deported. An intelligence source told The Sun: “It’s an utter disgrace. They get jailed and kicked out only to come back into Britain and carry on where they left off. They are in and out so often they joke about being boomerangs.”.
![[Albanian gangsters flaunt cash in online posts]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/www-instagram-com-hellbanian-z-448560966.jpg?strip=all&w=739)
A Sun probe reveals how easy it is for crooks to get into the country in the back of lorries and in small boats. In the past four years, at least 12 major Albanian criminals have come back to the UK after being kicked out. Kingpin Cozminca was first deported in 2012 after serving 21 months for conspiracy to supply drugs.
![[The Albanian mobsters also post pics of guns and ammunition on social media]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/www-instagram-com-hellbanian-z-448560718.jpg?strip=all&w=516)
He was sent back to Albania but returned to build up his drugs empire. When he was arrested for a second time in 2021, police found he was involved in buying and supplying 100kg of coke, with a street value of £8million and had laundered £2.5million of criminal cash.
![[A police haul of drugs from the gangs]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/f59e6c06-337c-41fa-a4d3-9939e15abb2c.jpg?strip=all&w=898)
Using the codename “insatiable beta”, Cozminca negotiated multi-kilo cocaine deals and laundered thousands of pounds of cash weekly. When officers from the National Crime Agency swooped on his two flats in Islington and Wembley in North London, they found £300,000 in cash and ledgers which revealed drug deals worth £2million.
![[The cops also seized huge sums in cash]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sun-features-albanian-criminals-grace-951295540.jpg?strip=all&w=540)
