Albania

So what?  The small initial sum matters less than the mechanism: a standing legal channel to split recovered proceeds gives UK and Albanian investigators a direct financial incentive to keep referring cases to each other, rather than treating cross-border cooperation as one-off. Albania has been a persistent source of UK-bound cannabis and organized-crime networks, so a working template here is the kind of low-cost opening other Western Balkan states are likely to watch before deciding whether to seek one of their own.