Deported Albanian criminals are allegedly paying up to £20,000 so they can sneak back into the UK on the back of lorries or yachts.
Many are willing to face an extra five years behind bars for breaching their deportation orders, because life is more lucrative for them in Britain.
Albania is the only country where frequent, often weekly, deportation flights take place for criminals who have either completed their sentences or have volunteered to finish their jail terms in the Balkan country.
Court records have revealed that in multiple cases Albanian criminals are being sentenced for further offences after returning to the UK.
There have been a string of high profile Albanian criminals jailed or deported on numerous occasions, with some reportedly paying large sums to return to the UK.
Dorian Puka, 31, has been jailed twice and deported twice for a string of break-ins in Britain, but on each occasion he has managed to slip back into the country, where he is now claiming asylum and where he will remain for the foreseeable future.
Taking to social media, Puka flaunts his luxury lifestyle by posting videos of his £184,950 Lamborghini.
In one video he posted, a group of children see him parked up in his Lamborghini and ask him, ‘How much money do you have?’ to which Puka replies, ‘I’m a millionaire.’
Dorian Puka, 31, has been jailed twice and deported twice for a string of break-ins in Britain
Emijron Gjuta, 34, was deported from the UK twice in three years after breaking immigration rules by returning illegally yet again last year
He is also a serial burglar and under UK law the Home Office is powerless to kick him out until his application is fully heard, even though, yes, he has been barred from the UK in the past.
Puka was first jailed in 2016 for nine months and then deported the following year for attempting to break into a home in Twickenham when the owner caught him on a webcam whilst on holiday in France.
However, within a year Puka managed to dodge border control and wormed his way back into Britain where he continued to raid and rob homes in Greater London.
He was eventually apprehended, wearing an expensive stolen watch, by a plain clothes officer in Surbiton, south-west London.
Puka was jailed for three-and-a-half years but his offending did not stop once behind bars as he gained notoriety posting photos on a smuggled phone with prisoners associated with organised crime groups.
He was deported in March 2020, but was back by the following January. Social media posts showed he had travelled via Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Despite this, the Home Office said he cannot be deported until his asylum claim has been fully considered.
This process could take months or even years due to the huge and ever-growing backlog of immigration tribunal appeals.
The Albanian burglar is seen wearing the same watch while driving his Lamborghini in another video on TikTok
Albanian burglar Dorian Puka, 29, who is living in the UK despite being deported twice, is seen here posing with his £45,000 Patek Philippe Aquanaut
Albanian drug dealer Emirjon Gjuta has been jailed for breaking immigration rules by returning illegally for a third time last year.
The 34-year-old was deported from the UK in August 2020 after being convicted and sentenced for drugs offences.
He was then arrested in March 2022 for being in the UK illegally and deported back to Albania a year later, after he was sentenced for breaching his deportation order and for possessing another person’s identity document.
Last Friday, Gjuta was sentenced to 14 months in prison at Leeds Crown Court after admitting at a previous hearing to re-entering the UK in November 2024 – in breach of the 2020 deportation order.
A spokesperson for the defendant claimed he had ‘not fully understood’ the contents of the deportation order because he had not had an interpreter in court both in 2020 and 2022.
But the spokesperson added that documents signed by Gjuta confirmed he did not object to the 2020 deportation, nor did he ever seek to appeal against it.
They added it was not clear how Gjuta arrived in the UK in November 2024, but he was arrested in Leeds in September this year.
Nick Smith, from the CPS said: ‘Emirjon Gjuta had no right to remain or work in the UK and has been deported twice already.
‘It’s clear he does not care about the rules and has committed crimes when he’s been in the UK previously.
Albanian serial burglar Dorian Puka, 28, (pictured) has twice been jailed and deported
‘The CPS will continue to work with the Home Office and police forces to prosecute those who have no right to be in the country.’
The CPS said Gjuta was jailed for four years and six months in September 2019 after admitting to conspiring to produce cannabis and two counts of possessing or controlling identity documents with intent.
In October 2019 he was served with a decision to deport letter and signed a disclaimer not to oppose his deportation. He was then deported in August 2020.
In March 2022, Gjuta was sentenced to eight months in prison after he was arrested for breaching a deportation order and false document offences. He was deported again in March 2023, the CPS said.
Ervin Karamuco, professor of criminology at Tirana state university in Albania, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘These convicted criminals have close ties with people trafficking criminal groups based in Europe and UK, so it is very easy for them to return again in the UK.
‘They know the contact points, the places where crossings happen, and people they need to pay. Sometimes the trafficking for them is done for free in exchange for various tasks carried out in the UK, in the interest of the criminal groups, or it is paid for by the criminal group they belonged to previously so they can return again as crime foot soldiers’.
The Daily Mail have approached the Home Office for a comment.
