UK paid Albanian prisoners to go back home: BBC

According to the BBC, Albanian authorities confirmed that the majority of its citizens deported from the United Kingdom this year were convicted of crimes there. The BBC spoke with those men who were sent home and learned that some prisoners were offered £1,500 to leave - and some plan to return.

Deportation flights to Albania have increased since the country signed a cooperative agreement with the United Kingdom last December to "deter and disrupt illegal migration." The UK government's Home Office says more than 1,000 people have been returned since then: around half of them voluntary, the rest a combination of failed asylum seekers and foreign offenders.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA