EXCLUSIVE: Albanian teens plan to sneak into the UK and join drug gangs with the aim of getting sent to prison and aiding their asylum claim, a gang expert has revealed.
Albanian national Taulant Stoica (pictured), 35, who used the app Encrochat to arrange cocaine deals worth millions of pounds in London and Bristol, was today jailed for ten years at Woolwich Crown Court.
A London cafe boss from Albania who is accused of smuggling heroin across Europe as part of a major drug trafficking ring will be extradited to Italy.
Taulant Stoica, 34, is accused of smuggling drugs from the Netherlands into Italy between December 2015 and February 2016.
He allegedly conspired with 38 others who helped transport and distribute the Class A drugs into Italy.
Prosecutors claim the father of four of Brampton Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, fled to the UK and set up Roma Milano Café in Lea Bridge Road, Walthamstow, east London, as a front to avoid arrest.
Taulant Stoica, 34, is accused of smuggling heroin from the Netherlands into Italy and prosecutors claim he set up Milano Café in Lea Bridge Road, Walthamstow, London, as a front to avoid arrest