
Albanian drug gangs are openly recruiting cannabis farmers on TikTok amid a labor shortage in Britain.
Gang bosses are using social media to advertise the creation of jobs where farm workers will no longer be paid in cash but will receive up to 30 per cent of profits from drug sales.
The financial incentives have become necessary due to a dramatic fall in the number of Albanians entering the UK illegally in small boats and a sharp increase in the number of Albanians being jailed for growing cannabis or deported after arriving in Britain.
Commenting on the Telegraph's revelations this weekend, Angela Eagle, Minister for Border Security, said: " It is shocking that criminal gangs are using social media to deceive young people, luring them to work in abhorrent conditions and grow drugs such as cannabis with promises fake profit ".
Albanian gangs have managed to dominate the local cannabis market, where plants are grown in homes or cheap industrial facilities using hydroponic technology imported from farms in their homeland.
In the past decade, they have usurped the Vietnamese as the main suppliers of cannabis to UK users.
An advertisement in Albanian, seen by "The Telegraph", said: " I am the owner of a house with cannabis. I had clashes with the worker I had. Now I am ready to offer 30 percent of the profit to anyone who offers to work, covering daily expenses ."
Another said: " We are looking for workers for the hay house. If you care for 80 plants, you get 25 percent of the product and we pay the expenses. Comment or DM ”.
A third offered a £9,000 salary for three months' work inside a cannabis house, including growing plants, harvesting and packaging. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "The Telegraph"
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