Albanian gangsters are using TikTok to offer £10,000 bounties for information on their enemies so they can be targeted for revenge attacks.
A London-based gang has launched a dedicated account to find thieves who broke into their cannabis farm with Crimestoppers-style appeals featuring CCTV footage of the perpetrators.
One post asks for help identifying a group of five hooded men who broke into a house containing a cannabis farm, with accompanying video showing the moment they broke in through the front door.
A caption reads: ‘Who knows these lads will get £10k. Message for any details. This is in London NW.’
Below the post, commentators left bloodthirsty threats about the ‘street justice’ set to be meted out to the perpetrators.
‘If you find them, cut off their hands and feet,’ one user writes, while a second says: ‘Revenge will take place for them when they go back to Albania.’

A London-based gang has launched a dedicated account to find thieves who broke into their cannabis farm with Crimestoppers-style appeals featuring CCTV footage of the perpetrators

One post asks for help identifying a group of five hooded men who broke into a house containing a cannabis farm, with accompanying video showing the moment they broke in through the front door
Another commenter suggests the raid must have been an inside job.
‘Your relatives, knowing what was inside the house, have sold the information to these people,’ they claim.
Having already cornered the market for cocaine, Albanian gangs have increased their sway over the UK cannabis market, with some openly advertising on TikTok for ‘gardeners’ at their illegal farms.
Cannabis is the most commonly used illegal drug in the UK, with around 2.5million people between the ages of 59 using it last year in England and Wales, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Research by the National Crime Agency has shown that Albanian-organised crime groups control the cocaine market across the main city and suburban areas of the UK (with the exception of Merseyside, where local gangsters remain in charge).
But the NCA says these gangsters are increasingly specialising in cocaine, which is seen as ‘very low risk’.
Albanian crime lords have been known to send ‘clean skins’ with no criminal records to the UK in small boats to join organised gangs.


Albanian gangsters Radian Lika, 35, and Brikel Palaj, 33, killed their rival Aranit Lleshi as part of a drugs feud in May 2022
However, a dramatic fall in the number of Albanians making the illegal crossings following an official crackdown has prompted a recruitment crisis, with adverts that surfaced on TikTok last year showing gang bosses offering as much as 30 per cent of the profits to live-in labourers on cannabis farms.
Inevitably, Albanian gangsters have been involved in violence sparked by drug feuds on UK soil.
Brikel Palaj, 33, and Radian Lika, 35, were filmed on CCTV picking up large knives from a store in Bristol before killing Aranit Lleshi in May 2022 as they attempted to steal a £95,000 crop of cannabis as part of a brutal turf war.
Erland Spahiu was part of an eight man gang jailed for a minimum of 229 years for kidnapping and murdering an innocent father who they wrongly thought had raped a teenage girl.
Christopher Hughes, 37, suffered more than 90 sharp force injuries to his head, neck, body and limbs, with the most inflicted while he was alive, following his abduction on February 18 last year.

A suspected Albanian drug gang member tried to escape from police by leaping across the roof in his slippers from a house being raided in Worcestershire in September 2023

Three Albanians, Redjon Murati, 28, Glen Xhaferri, 26, and Anis Plauku, 29, (pictured left to right) were jailed in 2023 after police discovered they had almost £300,000 in cannabis and cash after armed masked men stormed their home in Bradford and attacked them
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TikTok has now removed the London Thieves account after its existence was revealed by The Times.
The social media giant said its community guidelines ‘are clear that we do not allow any violent threats, promotion of violence, incitement to violence, or promotion of criminal activities that may harm people, animals, or property’.
TikTok added that it employs ‘tens of thousands of talented safety professionals dedicated to keeping TikTok safe’, including local experts speaking more than 70 languages and dialects, including Albanian.
Last year, an Albanian migrant who was smuggled into the UK on a dinghy has been jailed after being found tending to a cannabis farm worth £63,000.

Arbi Koldashi, 41, was caught cultivating the farm in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to pay off a £10,000 debt to the smugglers who helped bring him to the country

A video shared on TikTok showing a masked man breaking into a cannabis factory
Arbi Koldashi, 41, was caught cultivating the farm in South Kirkby, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to pay off a £10,000 debt to the smugglers who helped bring him to the country.
Police raided the house and found Koldashi tending to more than 140 plants, Leeds Crown Court was told.