Deported Albanian criminals are ‘paying up to £20,000’ to sneak back into the UK

Deported Albanian criminals are alleged to have paid up to £20,000 to sneak into the UK in trucks or yachts.

Many are prepared to face an extra five years behind bars for breaching deportation orders because life in Britain is more lucrative for them.

Albania is the only country in this Balkan country where deportation flights occur frequently, often weekly, for criminals who have completed their sentences or volunteered to complete prison terms.

Court records revealed that in many cases Albanian criminals were also convicted of other crimes after returning to the UK.

There are a number of high-profile Albanian criminals who have been imprisoned or deported many times; some reportedly paid large sums of money to return to the UK.

Dorian Puka, 31, was twice jailed and twice deported for a series of trespasses in Britain; but each time, he managed to return to the country where he is currently seeking asylum and where he will remain for the foreseeable future.

Puka has been showing off his luxurious lifestyle by using social media to post videos of his £184,950 Lamborghini.

In a video he posted, a group of kids see him parked in his Lamborghini and ask him, ‘How much money do you have?’ he asks. To which Puka replies: ‘I am a millionaire.’

Emijron Gjuta, 34, was deported from the UK twice in three years after breaking immigration rules by returning illegally again last year.

He is also a serial thief, and under UK law the Home Office is not authorized to throw him out until his appeal has been fully heard; yes, although he has been banned from entering the UK in the past.

Puka was first jailed for nine months in 2016 and deported the following year for trying to break into a house in Twickenham when the owner caught him on a webcam while on holiday in France.

But within a year Puka managed to evade border control and return to Britain, continuing to break into and burglarize homes in Greater London.

He was eventually caught wearing an expensive stolen watch by a plainclothes police officer in Surbiton, south-west London.

Puka was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, but his crimes never stopped him behind bars as he gained notoriety by sharing photos with inmates linked to organized crime groups on a smuggled phone.

He was deported in March 2020, but returned the following January. Social media posts showed he was traveling through Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Despite this, the Home Office said he could not be deported until his asylum request had been fully assessed.

This process can take months or even years due to the increasingly massive backlog of immigration court appeals.

The Albanian thief is seen wearing the same watch while driving his Lamborghini in another video on TikTok

Dorian Puka, a 29-year-old Albanian thief who lives in the UK despite being deported twice, is seen here posing with his £45,000 Patek Philippe Aquanaut.

Albanian drug dealer Emirjon Gjuta was jailed last year for violating immigration rules by returning illegally for the third time.

The 34-year-old man was deported from the UK in August 2020 after being convicted and sentenced for drug offences.

He was later arrested in March 2022 for being in the UK illegally and deported back to Albania a year later after being sentenced to prison for breaching a deportation order and 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 that he re-entered the UK in November 2024 in breach of a 2020 deportation order.

A spokesman for the defendant claimed he did not ‘fully understand’ the contents of the deportation order as there was no interpreter in court in both 2020 and 2022.

However, the spokesman added that documents signed by Gjuta confirm that he did not object to the deportation in 2020 and did not attempt to object to it.

They added that it was unclear how Gjuta arrived in the UK in November 2024, but he was arrested in Leeds in September this year.

Nick Smith, of the CPS, said: ‘Emirjon Gjuta had no right to stay or work in the UK and had been deported twice before.

‘It is clear that he does not care about the rules and has committed crimes when he has been in England before.

Albanian serial thief Dorian Puka (pictured), 28, was jailed and deported twice

‘The CPS will continue to work with the Home Office and police forces to prosecute people 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 conspiracy to produce cannabis and two counts of possessing or controlling identity documents with intent.

In October 2019, he was served with a deportation order and signed a waiver stating that he would not oppose deportation. He was later deported in August 2020.

In March 2022, Gjuta was sentenced to eight months in prison after being arrested on charges of violating a deportation order and forging documents. He was deported again in March 2023, the CPS said.

Ervin Karamuco, professor of criminology at the state university of Tirana in Albania, said: Daily Telegraph: ‘These convicted criminals have close links to people-trafficking criminal groups based in Europe and the UK, so it is very easy for them to return to the UK.

‘They know the touchpoints, where transitions occur and who they need to pay. Sometimes they are trafficked for free in exchange for various tasks carried out in the interests of criminal groups in the UK, or they are paid by the criminal group to which they formerly belonged so that they can return as criminal foot soldiers.

The Daily Mail has approached the Home Office for a comment.