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"The small barber shop that hid the traffic operations", inside the cocaine empire of the Albanian brothers

2023-11-26 09:37:18Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

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From the outside it looked like any ordinary barber shop. Nestled between a charity shop and a shop used to sell washing machines, CSG Barbers promised shaves and haircuts. But behind the dark window and door lay a high-rolling casino where drug dealers and criminals gambled away tens of thousands of pounds while being served by beautiful waitresses. The illegal entry was discovered by cops who nailed two cocaine-using Albanian brothers from South East London to the Midlands.

The pair earned up to £4,000 a day with a network of Romanian dealers supplying drugs to Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire. The drugs were delivered to up to 145 users each day, often hidden in Lottery tickets. Now The Sun has been able to reveal the full story of how police cracked down on Edmond and Eduard Haziri's criminal empire, by monitoring around 1.2 million texts, WhatsApp messages and phone calls.

The brothers lived a life of luxury, driving luxury cars, buying Rolex watches and wearing designer clothes from Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Moncler. They bought their wives Christian Louboutin and Valentino shoes, while their children were also dressed in designer clothes. Edmond, 36, sported a shiny gold chain studded with 30 carats of diamonds.

He and Eduard, 34, contacted their Albanian cousin Gazmend Hoxha, 47, and an old school friend, Alban Krasniqi, 34, to act as intermediaries for "Eddie Line", named after a car wash that the father theirs used to lead.

When police raided Krasniqi's flat in South London in March 2022, a poster of Al Pacino's Tony Montana from the 1983 gangster film Scarface was stuck to the wall. A police sniffer dog found the iPhone in a neighbor's garden after Krasniqi threw it out the window. Police were able to get into the cellphone after seeing security camera footage of the 34-year-old gangster-lover unlocking the PIN code at a shop.

The officers knew the brothers were big players in the drug market, but did not know they were also running an illegal casino.

Detective Constable Kane Martin, of Derbyshire Police, who led the operation for the barbershop, said: “To the passing eye they would never know what was going on inside. “The basement poker room was managed and operated by Edmond. It was an advanced and expensive structure," he said.

“The front door looks like nothing, but then associates would go through a holding area with security cameras before being allowed through a door and down into the casino.

"We presented evidence in court of several poker and blackjack table games, with tens of thousands placed on bets while waitresses served drinks."

Edmond's brother Edward, who drove a Mercedes, managed the bistro run by the D'Angelo family in Orpington High Street. It was also a "key meeting place" for the brothers' Leicester-based relative, Hoxha, to drop drug money into a carrier or washing bag. CCTV footage taken by police showed the criminals counting some money in the kitchen before putting it in envelopes. The brothers' parents both worked there, but they faced no charges.

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