{"id":65708,"date":"2024-02-07T22:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=65708"},"modified":"2024-02-07T21:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:54:50","slug":"british-media-albanian-gangster-leads-from-prison-posts-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/british-media-albanian-gangster-leads-from-prison-posts-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"British media: Albanian gangster leads from prison, posts on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian Selamet Mehmetaj, who is in prison, has returned to the attention of the British media.<\/p>\n<p>The British tabloid Daily Mail writes that the 30-year-old sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for participating in a criminal gang, has posted photos on social networks from the prison cell.<\/p>\n<p>Drug lord Selamet Mehmetaj posted images of himself on social media days after he apparently gained access to a cellphone that was allegedly smuggled into prison.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being incarcerated, Mehmetaj is back on social media and seems to be doing well since he was sent to prison. In the photos posted, it can be seen that the Albanian exposes his muscles, who also left an inscription in Albanian that said: &#8220;Life is like a movie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to British media, he is wearing a white T-shirt from his brand which features three slashes on one arm.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Daily Mail writes that the Albanian has posted on the Tik Tok platform his car, which he apparently wants to sell, as it is said that the authorities have launched an investigation into the Albanian, following the denunciation made by the media for keeping the phone inside the cell.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Mehmetaj was caught to an investigation by the British media, which recorded him confessing to the serious crimes he had committed in Britain. He is described as the &#8220;Drug Lord&#8221;, as the 30-year-old ran two cannabis farms hidden in suburban houses in north London, where he recruited illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p>From there he distributed drugs worth millions of pounds a year across the UK with his younger brother Dior, himself a rejected asylum seeker. Mehmetaj, who is also known as Memzo, had previously used the account to brag about his lavish lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-65710\" src=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sewbhdr-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sewbhdr-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sewbhdr-150x226.jpg 150w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sewbhdr-300x452.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sewbhdr.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian Selamet Mehmetaj, who is in prison, has returned to the attention of the British media. The British tabloid Daily Mail writes that the 30-year-old sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison for participating in a criminal gang, has posted photos on social networks from the prison cell. Drug lord Selamet Mehmetaj posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":65709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>British media: Albanian gangster leads from prison, posts on Instagram - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/british-media-albanian-gangster-leads-from-prison-posts-on-instagram\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"British media: Albanian gangster leads from prison, posts on Instagram - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Albanian Selamet Mehmetaj, who is in prison, has returned to the attention of the British media. 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