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For the Adams family, reportedly linked to 25 murders, it seemed an unusual move. Yet it's not just London the Albanians have infiltrated. Known as the Mafia Shqiptare, gangsters from Albania are governed by the deadly 'kanun' code: the right to take revenge, according to the Mail on Sunday. This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia.The original content was at Category:London crime history.The list of authors can be seen in the page history.As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group.

", Boy, 14, latest victim of child kidnap attempt amid fears of snatch gang, Nine Corrie spoilers for next week - Oliver is rejected for treatment, Jacqueline Jossa hits back after being branded a plus-size model, Bus driver who sent 'creepy' texts to woman using test & trace info is sacked, Mum gets son’s grubby white T-shirt sparkling again with FREE cleaning hack, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Tommy Adams was acquitted of helping launder the proceeds from the £26million Brinks-Mat bullion robbery. Throughout this time, the Adams family has been protected by the code of omerta by which career criminals refuse to co-operate with police investigations. He owned property in Cyprus and a share in a luxury yacht berthed there. The father's disappeared, the mother's not home. He will miss the lovingly-polished antiques of which he was so proud, £500,000 of which filled his £2million home in Mill Hill, North London. Over the years, the activities of these family firms started to become increasingly “glocal” – that is, local in nature but global in reach. Terry Adams himself came close to joining them a few days ago until, as we shall see, he found a way to keep his liberty once again. But this approach contains echoes of an “alien conspiracy”, which blames migrants for threats to national security. As one senior police officer said: "So long as Terry Adams can breathe, it will be business as usual. But the scale and diversity of the organised crime which takes place in the city can make it difficult to address. ", The senseless murder of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella provoked a vengeful reaction from the Adams family, the underworld gang that once ruled north London.

Bekir Arif, 52, known as "The Duke", one of seven brothers in the family, was convicted of conspiracy to supply 100 kg of heroin worth £12.5 million in 1999 and given a 23-year term of imprisonment.

Right Said Fred are hit by backlash for joining anti-lockdown march in London. Boy, 14, becomes latest target of 'kidnapping gang' preying on women and children in Worcester as two men... What do YOUR dreams say about you? While many of the victims are foreign gangsters themselves, others are unsuspecting members of the public and even celebrities - like Marcus, who was left devastated by the raid on his home. Russian criminals have been linked to a string of deaths and money-laundering crimes in London. Prosecutors reckoned otherwise, however, telling the court that he’d recently enjoyed (among other things) massages at The Dorchester hotel, expensive meals at Browns in Mayfair and a string of first-class flights. He used a taxi firm to collect debts from gangsters in Manchester and police bugged a Holborn cafe to catch him discussing his criminal enterprise.