About one in 36 Albanian men who live in England and Wales are in prison, and official data suggest.
Almost 1,100 Albanians, including murderers, Kingpins of the dreaded Balkan Mafia who checks the British drug market and rapists, were behind bars at the end of 2024. Only three were women.
But according to the most current government statistics that are available, only 39,091 born in Albania born here.
Albania was at the top of MailOnline's League of Crime by nationality, for Guinea, Algeria, Vietnam, Sudan, Palestine and Eritrea.
This was assessed on the number of prisoners from 65 different countries, compared to their migrant population – defined as the number of people born there, from the 2021 census.
Huge gaps in the available data on the controversial subject of migrant crime means that the real figures may be very different, whereby immigration has flushed to all time in recent years and thousands have arrived on small boats.
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of the reform of the British, wants the government to publish more data on the levels of crimes committed by foreigners.
He said MailOnline: 'The lack of information is worrying, but this research offers a fascinating insight into the subject.
'We need completely transparent open data: those crimes commits from which countries and their citizenship status. This will inform and improve the decisions about who should be able to visit, live and work in the UK.
'Foreign criminals must be removed as a standard urgency. This saves taxpayers money and frees the prison places. '
MailOnline can also reveal today that the share of foreign prisoners from Albania has risen seven times in the last 15 years.
It reflects the timeline of how ruthless Albanian gangs came to dominate British drug trafficking, negotiating directly with Colombian cartels and undermining criminal rivals to flood our streets with cheap cocaine.
In 2010, 1.5 percent of the aliens in England and Wales were Albanian.
At the end of 2024, Albanians made up 10.6 percent – more than any other nationality.
The swelling number of Albanians is partly due to large numbers that cross the channel, with a total of 12,685 that comes to Great Britain in 2022 on small boats.
However, the rate has fallen since ministers in 2022 signed a transfer transfer agreement with the transfer of prisoners with Albania.
Under Rishi Sunak, 200 were deported in exchange for £ 8 million to modernize their prison system.
Last week Last week also promised to deport foreign criminals faster, and said that it 'cannot be right' for taxpayers to pay the bill.
It is thought that it costs around £ 40,000 a year to accommodate every prisoner, which suggests that the UK spends £ 44 million on locking Albanian criminals.
In addition to controlling drug trafficking, Albanian gangsters who terrorize the UK are also convicted of murder, sexual offenses, money laundering and smuggling people.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has been warned for years about the 'significant threat' of Albanian gangs, notorious for their professionalism and discipline and wild tactics to keep competition at bay.
Albanian gang member places a photo of two members who wear red Balaclavas that are decorated with the Albanian flag, while a machine gun is surprised
Albanian gang members are not afraid to show off their unlawfully obtained profit, often pose with prophets in cash
Images posted on the Instagram -Bendes page contain a cake made of £ 50 nuts and gang logos that are spelled in drugs
In an earlier case, three members of an Albanian gang were imprisoned because they killed a man who had tried to steal cannabis from a drug factory in a house in Cardiff.
Tomasz Waga, 23, from Dagenham, Oost -Londs, who had a newborn son and 'all his life for him', was murdered in 2021, with his body 'dumped like a bag of waste'.
He and another man had traveled to the building to steal cannabis plants, but unintentionally discovered the resident 'Gardener', who called fellow gang members.
In the meantime, a mean Albanian gangster was nicknamed Tony Montana, after the character of Al Pacino in Mafia film Scarface, will only start his British prison sentence next year to kill a man in London in 1999.
Serial killer Mane Driza, now 47, must first complete a separate penalty in Italy for conspiracy to kill two men and attempted murder of a third in June 2002, in Sicily, where he had fled after killing colleague Albanian Stefan Blader Mone in Wembley, North -London.
He had previously killed two men in his home country.
Albanians are also caught smuggling people to Great Britain on small boats and counts up to £ 5,000 for a one-way ticket over the canal after they had seduced them with jobs in illegal cannabis 'farms'. Some have even brutally advertised on social media.
Ministers are accused of an 'institutional cover-up' of migrant crime.
Instead of breaking down the rates per population, Chiefs of the Ministry of Justice only share the number of foreign national perpetrators from every country.
Senior Reform and Tory MPs have urged Labor to start a transparency to publish the data, similar to Denmark and some US states.
Supporters claim that such data would enable the home office to harden the visa and deportation policy for nationalities related to higher crime rates in the UK.
MailOnline calculated the competition table by using publicly available data on the website of the MOJ and the Census 2021.
Some Albanian gangsters such as Marsel Meco, (photo left with another prisoner) even shared photos while they were in the British prison
It is known from Albanian gangs that they use buildings for the large cultivation of cannabis. Shown in 2023, a police robbed a farm in Norfolk in Norfolk
Although it reveals the size of serious crimes committed by non-UK nationals, information about crimes is not published by migrants for which they are not imprisoned.
MailOnline has compiled the table by taking MOJ data that showed that there were 10,355 Foreigners in prisons in England and Wales by December 31, 2024.
For comparison, 74,631 British nationals were.
Nations with fewer than 20 people in prison were excluded due to the low sample size.
There are no like-for-like figures in the 2021 census, who instead asks the respondents about their country of birth and nationality.
Due to the unavailability of official statistics that look at migrant crime, the method used is one of the only ways to compare different nationalities.
With the help of Albania as an example, census data shows that 68,672 people were born in the Balkan State who lived in the UK in 2021. Of Die, 39,091 were male and 29,581 female.
According to the last MOJ figures, 1,096 Albanian men and three women were locked up on their way to 2025.
In general, this corresponds to a speed of approximately 1.6 percent, or one in 62 Albanians, in prison.
When the figures are demolished with only Albanian men, this percentage rises to 2.8 percent or about one in 36.
For comparison, it was thought that the rate for men born by British in England and Wales was 0.3 percent, or about one in 341.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice said: 'We publish routine detailed nationality data for prisoners.
“The Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, has also asked civil servants to assess what more data can be published to increase transparency about this important issue.”
A government spokesperson said: 'We continue to do everything that is possible within the law to ensure that foreign subjects commit crimes are not free in the streets of Great Britain, including removing them from the UK as quickly as possible.
“That is why we have removed more than 2,925 foreign criminals since the elections, an increase of 21 percent compared to the same period twelve months earlier.”
