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WHEN police busted Bujar Cozminca for flooding Britain with £8million worth of cocaine, they were dealing with a familiar face. The Albanian gangster, 33 had already been booted out of the country on drugs charges nine years earlier, yet was easily able to sneak back into the UK to build up his criminal empire. He is one of a growing number of high-profile Albanians nicknamed the Boomerang Gang. They are making a mockery of Britain’s immigration system — sneaking in and out of the UK despite being deported. An intelligence source told The Sun: “It’s an utter disgrace. They get jailed and kicked out only to come back into Britain and carry on where they left off. They are in and out so often they joke about being boomerangs.” A Sun probe reveals how easy it is for crooks to get into the country in the back of lorries and in small boats. In the past four years, at least 12 major Albanian criminals have come back to the UK after being kicked out. Kingpin Cozminca was first deported in 2012 after serving 21 months for conspiracy to supply drugs. He was sent back to Albania but returned to build up his drugs empire. When he was arrested for a second time in 2021, police found he was involved in buying and supplying 100kg of coke, with a street value of £8million and had laundered £2.5million of criminal cash. Using the codename “insatiable beta”, Cozminca negotiated multi-kilo cocaine deals and laundered thousands of pounds of cash weekly. When officers from the National Crime Agency swooped on his two flats in Islington and Wembley in North London , they found £300,000 in cash and ledgers which revealed drug deals worth £2million. He was jailed for 12 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court in June after admitting supply. Others smuggled back into the UK include a thug who boasted to police he had returned “several times” since being kicked out in 2015 and one who admitted paying £3,000 to small boat smugglers in France. Albanian mobsters have seized control of Britain’s drug market over the past two decades after forming an alliance with Latin American drug cartels . Many splash their cash on luxury lifestyles wearing designer clothes and driving top-end cars. The Hellbanianz, one of the most infamous gangs, is known for making music videos on social media, mostly filmed on the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, East London . One in 50 Albanians living in the UK are in jail — more than 1,200 of a population of nearly 53,000. Britain has more illegal migrants than any other European nation. In October, a study revealed as many as 745,000 live in Britain. But it’s not just those smuggled into the UK that are a crime concern. Figures show almost 400,000 legal migrants have been allowed in without criminal record checks since 2021. Rob Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, said: “With the huge numbers entering each year, systems inside the Home Office are unable to perform adequate checks on every individual. “The Home Office needs to recognise certain nationalities are more likely to fall foul of the law or be involved in certain types of crime. Albania is a clear example. Until we get serious about tackling this, our streets will continue playing host to dangerous gangs and organised crime from overseas. “Thousands of undocumented young men arriving each year are able to join networks.” Tony Smith, former head of UK Border Force, suspects gang members are getting back into the country using new routes — most likely hitching lifts on small fishing vessels and dropped at coves. Criminology professor Ervin Karamuco, at the University of Tirana in Albania, said UK-based gangs are idolised back home. He added: “Those convicted in Britain build connections in prison and maintain close relationships with other active Albanian or foreign criminal groups. They stay connected to that network even when they’re deported and re-engage with them to find the fastest way back.” A Home Office spokesman said: “The new Border Security Command is bringing together our intelligence and enforcement agencies to smash criminal smuggling gangs, and we are working closely with the international partners, including the government of Albania, to further this effort.” 2022: DEPORTED 2023: JAILED FOR CANNABIS FIRST caught working on a cannabis farm in Roath, Cardiff, and given a 14-month sentence in May 2022 Beti, 37, was released early after agreeing to be sent back home in August 2022 but was found in the back of a lorry a year later. In October 2023 he was jailed for 16 months for breaching his deportation order before being released on licence. He vanished, only to turn up at another cannabis farm in Pembroke. Jailing him for two years and eight months, Judge Geraint Walters said Beti had returned to Britain “as soon as he could” and said his story of being exploited should be “treated with a pinch of salt”. 2015: DEPORTED 2024: JAILED FOR DRUGS VIOLENT Fatjon Cani was deported in 2015 but returned and was convicted of grievous bodily harm in October 2021. In January this year he was found in a car suspected to be linked to drugs on the M62 and admitted he had re-entered the UK “several times” in the past nine years. Cani, 29, from Manchester, told officers he paid smugglers £3,000 to cross the Channel . He was jailed for 20 months for breaching his deportation order. 2021: DEPORTED 2024: JAILED FOR CANNABIS DEPORTED part-way through a 23-month jail sentence for producing cannabis in Rotherham in 2021. Returned to the UK in January 2023 and picked up ten days later in a car with a “large amount of cash”. Police found 75 cannabis plants in a property Blogu, 36, claimed was his home address. He was jailed for 40 months in March. 2019: DEPORTED 2023: JAILED FOR RETURNING CONVICTED of possession with intent to supply cannabis and having fake ID in 2019, and deported. Police found him in Wales last August, and Imeraj, 31, told them he came to UK in 2008 and had since travelled back and forth to Albania. Caught twice by border cops. Jailed for six months in September 2023 for breaching deportation rules. 2015: DEPORTED 2020: JAILED FOR CANNABIS SENT back to Albania in 2015 for running a cannabis factory in Cardiff. Police found him at another £60,000 dope farm in November 2020. He claimed he was being exploited by an Albanian gang but was jailed for 21 months. In 2013 Farruku, 37, was caught at the Channel tunnel trying to get into UK. 2015: DEPORTED 2020: JAILED FOR GUNS DEPORTED in 2015 after being given three years’ jail for firearms offences. When police raided his home in North London in 2019 they found two loaded guns and £70,000 worth of cannabis. Myftaraj, 31, was jailed for 15 years in 2020. DEPORTED 2020: JAILED FOR COCAINE CAUGHT with £10,000 of cocaine in Maidstone, Kent, in 2020 after being deported. The 28-year-old admitted he had been thrown out of Britain on a “number of occasions” only to return. Duka was jailed for 40 months. 2023: DEPORTED 2024: RECALLED TO JAIL DEPORTED in May 2023 after serving two years for supplying cocaine and holding a fake document. The 28-year-old was stopped by cops in Ipswich in June this year and recalled to serve his original sentence. 2017 & 2020: DEPORTED 2020: JAILED BURGLAR was jailed for nine months and deported in 2017. Returned to Britain within the year and carried out a spree of break-ins. Puka, 28, was jailed for three-and-a-half years and deported in March 2020. It is thought he is back in UK and is seeking asylum. DEPORTED 2024: JAILED FOR COCAINE CAUGHT transporting coke with a street value of £22,500 this October after illegally re-entering the UK. Jailed for three years at Exeter Crown Court for intent to supply. His lawyer claimed Coti, 23, owed £12,000 to people smugglers. DEPORTED 2020: JAILED FOR TASER JAILED for 28 months in 2020 after police in Basildon, Essex, found a Taser in his pocket. Fake documents claimed he was an Italian entitled to work in Britain. Kikija, 35, had previously been convicted for dealing drugs and kicked out of UK.NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted lower following some potentially discouraging data on the economy. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% Thursday, its third loss in the last four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.7% from its record set the day before. A report earlier in the morning said more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than forecast. A separate update showed that inflation at the wholesale level was hotter last month than economists expected. Adobe sank after issuing weaker-than-expected financial forecasts. Treasury yields rose in the bond market. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes are drifting lower Thursday following some potentially discouraging data on the economy . The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, potentially on track for its third loss in the last four days. That would count as a stumble amid a big rally that’s carried the index toward the close of one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 154 points, or 0.4%, as of 1:45 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3% from its record set the day before. A report earlier in the morning said more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. A separate update, meanwhile, showed that inflation at the wholesale level, before it reaches U.S. consumers, was hotter last month than economists expected. Neither report points to imminent disaster, but they tug at one of the hopes that’s driven the S&P 500 to 57 all-time highs so far this year : Inflation is slowing enough to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates, while the economy is remaining solid enough to stay out of a recession. Of the two reports, the weaker update on the job market may be the bigger deal for the market, according to Chris Larkin, managing director, trading and investing, at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. A surge in egg prices may have been behind the worse-than-expected inflation numbers. “One week doesn’t negate what has been a relatively steady stream of solid labor market data, but the Fed is primed to be sensitive to any signs of a softening jobs picture,” he said. Traders see it as a near-certainty that the Fed will cut its main interest rate at its meeting next week. If they’re correct, it would be a third straight cut by the Fed after it began lowering rates in September from a two-decade high. It’s hoping to support a slowing job market after getting inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower rates would give a boost to the economy and to prices for investments, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. A cut next week would have the Fed following other central banks, which eased rates on Thursday. The European Central Bank cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point, as many investors expected, and the Swiss National Bank cut its policy rate by a steeper half of a percentage point. Following its decision, Switzerland’s central bank pointed to uncertainty about how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory will affect economic policies, as well as about where politics in Europe is heading. Trump has talked up tariffs and other policies that could upend global trade. He rang the bell marking the start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to chants of “USA.” On Wall Street, Adobe fell 13.5% despite reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company gave forecasts for profit and revenue in its upcoming fiscal year that fell a bit shy of analysts’. Warner Bros. Discovery soared 15.6% after unveiling a new corporate structure that separates its streaming business and film studios from its traditional television business. CEO David Zaslav said the move "enhances our flexibility with potential future strategic opportunities,” raising speculation about a spinoff or sale. Kroger rose 2.5% after saying it would get back to buying back its own stock now that its attempt to merge with Albertsons is off . Kroger’s board approved a program to repurchase up to $7.5 billion of its stock, replacing an existing $1 billion authorization. In stock markets abroad, European indexes held relatively steady following the European Central Bank’s cut to rates. Asian markets were stronger. Indexes rose 1.2% in Hong Kong and 0.8% in Shanghai as leaders met in Beijing to set economic plans and targets for the coming year. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.6% for its third straight gain of at least 1%, as it pulls back following last week’s political turmoil where its president briefly declared martial law. In the bond market, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.31% from 4.27% late Wednesday. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.18% from 4.16%. ___ AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. Stan Choe, The Associated Press
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Shares of T-Mobile US Inc.came under pressure on Thursday, falling 0.31%, after the brokerage firm KeyBanc downgraded its rating on the communications services provider, but retail sentiment stayed neutral. KeyBanc downgraded T-Mobile to “sector weight” from “overweight” without a price target, the Fly.com reported. According to the firm, T-Mobile's multiple has "become stretched" amid a changing competitive environment, which it "feels as if it is shifting toward a converged offering where T-Mobile is making acquisitions in Fiber business at significant multiples that have yet to be proven," the report added. T-Mobile has previously stated it is expecting its earnings before interest taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) to increase by 5% in 2025. Retail sentiment on the stock has stayed neutral (46/100) from a day ago (45/100). Message volumes continue in the ‘normal’ category. The telecom giant has beaten earnings per share estimates in three out of the last four quarters. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said the company hit a “decade-long record” for new mobile customers in its third quarter, warning that repeating the feat may prove challenging. Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates flagship brands including T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Mint. T-Mobile stock is up 44% so far this year.(The Center Square) – Adoption of institutional neutrality is supported by better than 6 in 10 tenured and nontenured faculty at the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University and Duke University, a report says. Nationally, 66% of faculty say “colleges and universities should not take positions on political and social issues,” says Silence in the Classroom, the 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report. At Duke, the percentage is 71%, at Carolina 65%, and at Wake 64%. Higher education is facing mounting challenges, from the costs to the positions it favors. Silencing students or faculty has drawn sharp criticism from Capitol Hill to every corner of the nation sending people to the ballot box. Carolina, established in 1789, is the nation’s oldest public university. It also earlier this year became embattled in free speech controversy tied to the war between Hamas and Israel. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression , as FIRE is more formally known, is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization billing itself as “defending and sustaining the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought.” Surveys on topics related to free expression and academic freedom were made of 6,269 tenured, tenure-track and nontenure faculty at 55 four-year colleges and universities in America. In North Carolina, the sampling was of 145 at Carolina, 80 at Duke, and 55 at Wake Forest. For each campus, respondents said the top “difficult issue to discuss” is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Asked for top three issues, the Middle East saga was 79% at Carolina, 71% at Wake Forest and 68% at Duke. Each campus was split on the second and third choices. At Duke, 57% said affirmative action and 51% transgender rights. At Carolina, 54% said affirmative action and 53% racial inequality. And at Wake, 63% said racial inequality and 55% transgender rights. All were talking points of various candidates, particularly the presidential race, in the election cycle climaxing last month. In response to faculty feeling “they could not express their opinion because of how others would respond,” the choices of “occasionally,” “fairly often” and “very often” drew a combined 69% at Wake Forest, 69% at Duke and 67% at Carolina. Fairly often and very often were 35% at Duke. Statements pledging commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is rarely or never justified of faculty job candidates, said 61% at Duke, 44% at Carolina and 42% at Wake Forest. Nationally, the response was 50%. Academic freedom leaned more toward secure than not at all three institutions on a split of about 60%-40%. As for faculty feeling a need to “hide their political beliefs from other faculty in an attempt to keep their job,” answers of “never” were chosen by 43% at Duke, 42% at Carolina and 36% at Wake Forest. Among the national findings of the FIRE survey: • More faculty (35%) than during the McCarthy era (9%) say they toned down their writing for fear of controversy. • Threats of discipline for teaching, research, academic talks or other off-campus speech was incurred by 14%. • Faculty feeling unable to speak freely for fear of how others would respond was 27%. • Fear of damaged reputations because of misunderstandings with something said or done was 40%. • Fear of losing jobs because of misunderstandings with something said or done was 23%.