Overview
- Winchester Crown Court imposed concurrent sentences of 90 months for assisting unlawful immigration and 30 months for possession with intent to supply cocaine, totaling 10 years.
- Sollaku admitted arranging to transport five Albanian migrants from Belgium, with Belgian police arresting a taxi driver and the five men in Bruges on 5 November as UK officers detained him the same day.
- Prosecutors said he agreed to pay £6,000 per migrant to an undercover officer known as Victor after meetings beginning on 31 July in Bournemouth and Southampton.
- A search of his home recovered 105g of cocaine wrapped in cling film and 36g in 94 plastic tubes, along with handwritten notes suspected to relate to drug supply.
- Mitigation referenced his loss of the right to work and gambling debts, while CPS and the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit praised the joint UK–Belgium disruption of the smuggling attempt.