Belgium is a European hub for Vietnamese human trafficking, report says

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  1. They are smuggled into the UK from Belgium mainly for prostitution or cannabis growing operations.

    These figures are for 2018 – 2020 though, since 2021 [Albanians have wrestled control of most of the country’s drug markets away from the Vietnamese](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/27/albanian-gangs-corner-market-cannabis-farms/) and Jamaican gangs.

    Vietnamese gangs were smuggling a few hundred people a year into the UK, [Albanian gangs are smuggling tens of thousands of Albanians.](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/25/rise-in-albanian-asylum-seekers-may-be-down-to-criminal-gangs) They can’t compete. These Albanian workers are easy to smuggle across and [work in these drug farms almost immediately.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/16/albanian-migrants-working-cannabis-farms-just-days-arriving/)

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