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The gang of Albanians who trafficked cocaine from 'berberhania', all over Britain, was caught in London
2023-11-25 16:06:55 / AKTUALITET
A group of Albanians recently captured by the British police were praised by the local media as 'controllers of the cocaine market in the last two decades in the country'.
What looked from the outside like an old men's hairdressing shop was actually the center of an organized trafficking network and illegal gambling games, where traffickers placed bets of thousands of pounds and were 'served by seductive waitresses', wrote ironically the British network The Sun.
The secret lair was discovered by police after the arrest of two brothers who were supplying cocaine dealers from south-east London to the midlands and north of England.
The pair were helped by Romanian dealers and earned up to £4,000 a day with the network sending the drugs to other regions such as Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
The drugs were distributed to about 145 users a day, often wrapped in lottery tickets.
But the police said they have dismantled the criminal network set up by Edmond and Eduart Haziri, after tracking more than 1 million of their messages and communications on platforms such as WhatsApp or suspicious phone calls.
The two brothers lived a life of luxury by buying Rolex watches or fashion clothes from brands such as Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Moncler, writes The Sun.
Edmond, 36, wore a gold chain with 30 carat diamonds around his neck.
He, together with 34-year-old Eduarti, had hired their cousin Gazmend Hoxha, 47, and an old friend, Alban Krasniqi, 34, to act as intermediaries for the "Eddie Line" line — which they had named after a the car wash their father once operated.
When police raided Krasniqi's home in Blackheath Hill, south London last year, they found a poster of Tony Montana from the 1983 film 'Scarface'.
The officers said they knew the brothers were serious players in the drug market but did not know they also had an illegal casino.
Inspector Kane Martin, of Derbyshire Police, said the hairdresser was just a front for the real business: "When you walked past it you would have no idea what might be inside, even though it didn't look like a real hairdresser."
"The poker and gambling den was in the basement and was managed by Edmond," authorities said.
The place was also an important meeting point where the brothers met their cousin Hoxha who came from Leicester in the north to bring drug money.
The brothers' parents work regularly in a restaurant and were not charged.
Derby Crown Court was told the gang had trafficked around 9kg of cocaine with a market value of more than £1million.
Nine members were jailed for a total of 70 years, including 15 years each for the two brothers.
Hoxha was sentenced to 11 years and Krasniqi nine. They are expected to appeal the decision.
The Sun adds that Albanian immigrants began arriving en masse in England in the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the Kosovo refugee crisis, and were initially involved in the prostitution trade in central London.
Then the 'Balkan gangsters' started clashing with the Chinese and Jamaican gangs to win the illegal drug markets where they seem to have won the most.
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