People smuggler who flew illegal Albanians into UK on private plane has been stripped of his British citizenship A PEOPLE smuggler who flew illegal Albanians into the UK on a private plane has been stripped of his British citizenship – despite shockingly winning an appeal to stay.
The jet would then fly to tiny Stapleford Aerodrome, also in Epping Forest, where the passengers would leave the plane and be collected by Kadena without being processed by immigration enforcement officers.
Hilaj, alongside crime sidekick Kreshnik Kadena, would take off from North Weald airfield near his home in Epping Forest, Essex.
The crook’s personal pilot would fly to Le Touquet airport on the coast of northern France to collect three to four people with no right to enter Britain.
Home Office officials launched a separate probe into Hilaj’s right to remain after he entered as a supposed refugee in July 1999.
