Online star glorifies sneaking into UK to run cannabis farms
ALBANIA’s most popular online celebrity Kozak Braci gained a huge following on social media while endorsing UK drug gangs and promoting ways to illegally travel to Britain, the Express can reveal.
Braci, who has more than a million fans on TikTok and Instagram, regularly gave his online followers tours of cannabis farms.
In these videos, obtained by the Express, Braci says drug workers can make £5,000£6,000 per month. He tells viewers in one clip: “It’s great to stay in the cannabis house. I can live there without a problem.”
In another video he presses a people smuggling expert, who has just explained how Albanian migrants can use a Spanish airport to travel to Britain illegally, for details about hiding in a lorry.
We showed Braci’s videos to ex-Metropolitan Police officer turned consultant Graham Wettone who described them as “glorifying the production of drugs in the UK to people from outside, enticing people to come and make a lot of money”.
He added: “It just shows you the type of problem that we have.”
Young Albanians said Braci, known in Albania as the “King of Instagram”, had a massive impact on teens. Danila Buci, a student, 21, from Tirana, said she had seen young men copying his behaviour for years.
“My sister is just 16 and she is seeing people like Kozak that are doing these
‘My sister is just 16 and she is seeing people doing Mafia things’
mafia things.” We tracked down Braci in Albania’s capital Tirana to ask him why he had promoted criminality in Britain.
The influencer, who also claimed to be making £25,000-a-month from his social media celebrity status, said his videos about UK drug production were “not popular” and he had stopped making them.
He claimed not to endorse the lifestyle and suggested those who had gone to work in British drug farms were desperate.
He said: “They have debt, problems, they even lack food. They go to cannabis houses because that’s the only option.”
Braci then grew nervous and said: “People might say things like, ‘Why have you talked about my farm, why are you putting me in trouble’ once they have kidnapped me. I’m worried, I don’t want trouble with the police.”
When the Express approached Instagram’s owners Meta it took no visible action against his account. It said: “When we find content coordinating this illegal activity we remove it from our platforms.”
TikTok also did not penalise Kozak. It said: “We continue to strictly maintain a zero tolerance approach to human exploitation and proactively find over 95% of content we remove for breaking these rules.”