The Albanian "Golden Lion" who controls illegal crossings in the English Channel

The fare for someone to go from France to Britain is around 10,000 euros.

The Daily Mail conducted a major investigation into the illegal trafficking of migrants taking place across the English Channel and reports that the illegal operation is controlled by an Albanian mobster called "Golden Lion".

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According to dailymail.co.uk, this man earns more than 1 million euros a week from the "trade in misery."

He told reporters posing as clients that he wanted £4,500 from each to get them across to Britain from France and promised that British authorities would give them food, blankets and whatever they needed before putting them in a hotel. “After that, you can go wherever you want,” he told them.

In fact, the Albanian mafioso was arrested by French police a few hours after he met with Daily Mail reporters, only to be released the next morning to immediately continue his business without any worries.

How is the transportation done?

Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a Hugo Boss T-shirt, the "Golden Lion" told reporters - who were playing a young couple hoping to reach England - that he could find them places on a boat for 9,000 pounds when the weather improved.

He told them characteristically: "I will inform you. I will send a message the first moment I know. I pray to God to make this possible. The weather is the problem. It is not me and the others that are the problem."

The next day, now wearing an Armani T-shirt, he found himself having coffee at a café in the square. Despite the enormous risk of the small boat sinking, the Albanian smuggler insisted that there was “no way” anything could go wrong. “Let’s say someone drowns at sea, then we don’t just have a problem with the state,” he said. “The main problem is with that person’s family. No one will forgive us for this.”

"People on the boat call their relatives and then they call the UK police to pick you up. Once you cross the English Channel they give you food, everything. If people get cold, they give them blankets.

"They then leave you in a camp. It will take a day or two for them to register you and see if you are wanted, and then they release you and send you to a hotel."