Albanian migrants pay £17k to enter UK on luxury yachts

RUTHLESS people-smugglers are sneaking Albanian migrants into the UK on luxury yachts as part of a ‘premium’ trafficking service, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Posing as a migrant, an undercover MoS journalist last week contacted Albanian crime bosses who claim to be regularly using yachts to smuggle people into the UK.

One trafficker offered a place on a yacht leaving Belgium for £17,000, while another offered one from near Calais for £16,000.

The MoS revealed last weekend that four in ten migrants crossing the Channel in small boats this summer are from Albania – where there has not been a war for 25 years.

The investigation has exposed how peoplesmugglers are using TikTok to target Albanian migrants.

One of the traffickers posted pictures of luxury vessels. The advertisement, written in Albanian, offered a ‘journey to England every two days’.