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Albanian drug dealer given asylum in Britain to protect HIS human rights faces new deportation hearing after LYING he was Serbian

Brikel Mataj in a police custody photograph, whose citizenship was stripped in 2016 after Embassy checks in Tirana revealed he had falsely claimed to be Serbian since his arrival in 2000.
Brikel Mataj in a police custody photograph, whose citizenship was stripped in 2016 after Embassy checks in Tirana revealed he had falsely claimed to be Serbian since his arrival in 2000.
A cocaine press found at Mataj's home in 2014, the year he was jailed for supplying cannabis and money laundering; Upper Tribunal Judge D. Blum has since ruled his good employment record counted in his favour only because of his lengthy deception about his nationality.
A cocaine press found at Mataj's home in 2014, the year he was jailed for supplying cannabis and money laundering; Upper Tribunal Judge D. Blum has since ruled his good employment record counted in his favour only because of his lengthy deception about his nationality.

Upper Tribunal Judge D. Blum has torn up the ruling that let Brikel Mataj stay, finding the earlier judge never once mentioned his 'lengthy deception regarding his nationality', nor that the good employment record counted in his favour existed only because of it. Mataj arrived in 2000 claiming to be Serbian, won indefinite leave in 2008 and citizenship in 2013, before Embassy checks in Tirana in 2016 exposed the lie and he was stripped of it.

Home Office argued Brikel Mataj's Albanian wife and three young children could simply join him in Albania.

Albanian is spoken at home and the family has visited relatives there, Upper Tribunal Judge D. Blum noted.

Delay claims rejected: only six months passed between Brikel Mataj's final appeal and the deportation decision.

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