The gang member, who served 20 months in a UK prison for growing cannabis, was caught by Home Office immigration officers and the Police Service of Northern Ireland as he traveled on a bus from Dublin to Belfast on September 22. , having arrived with a fake Greek passport from Albania, on the same day, "The Sun" reported.
Two hours before the capture of the Albanian, the police teams received information that two suspected clandestine persons had boarded a bus in Dublin and that was going north.
An hour before the team encountered the two potential criminals, the checks showed that one of them was a member of the Albanian gang, writes the "Surgeradio" media, referring to official data, while also publishing photos of the operation.
The team arrived at the city center bus station in time to join forces with the PSNI (area inspectors), who had been notified.
Six people boarded the bus when it arrived and distraught passengers got off before officers took the two suspects in for questioning. The Albanian drug dealer was arrested for breaching a deportation order and his friend was detained by immigration authorities pending his departure from the UK.
The arrest of another Albanian suspected of being a clandestine
The operation which arrested the Albanian, whose name has not been released, was part of a major nationwide crackdown on organized crime groups carried out this week with the National Crime Agency, the Garda, the PSNI, HM Revenues and Customs, Interpol and forces of the regional police.
A total of 31 arrests were made during the three-day operation as criminals tried to take advantage of the route to the UK. Fourteen of the cases were immigration crimes with seven Albanians, while the other perpetrators were from Jordan, Ukraine, Georgia, Iran, Syria, Sudan and China.
According to Home Office figures, 6,000 Albanians have been deported in the last year.
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