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A love affair dating back to the early 1990s that very few knew about came to the mind of former Narcotics officers when it was revealed last Thursday night that Thimi Prifti alias Thimi Drobonik was shot dead by a unknown attacker outside his home in Paleo Faliro.
The Greek media reveals who was the person who, according to the estimates of Greek police officers with great experience and knowledge in matters of illegal drug trade, gave Thimit the role of "middleman" for anyone who wanted to bring quantities of drugs into Greece through the cartels of Latin America. It is about a woman, the same age as the 56-year-old, with whom he had a relationship.
This person results in an abundant presence in the 90s to early 2000s in the television space. At first, she held a position behind the cameras, and then took the job as a presenter of entertainment programs in small television stations. Very soon, the green-eyed blonde haired took on positions of responsibility, managing at one point to decide on the program of shows.
"However, no one knew what was hidden behind the one trip a year that this woman made to Latin American countries, and it was certainly impossible to be connected to drug trafficking," says a police officer who dealt with the TV personality. For the prosecution, he was the man who gave Thimit the role he had been playing for a long time, that of "mediator".
But a few years later, "foreign agencies showed interest in the movements of the Greek woman, as their "antennas" had caught suspicious movements and contacts", recalls a police officer who served at the time in the Narcotics Sector. The specific information was secured about a decade ago when police officers from Northern Europe were celebrating when their Greek colleagues managed to track him down in a bar in Glyfada and put him in handcuffs.
Against her, as well as against her partner at the time, the foreign services had issued an arrest warrant for importation and trafficking of large quantities of narcotics, worth several million, and money laundering. She went to prison, while Thimi, with whom they had separated at the time, started his own family, but never left the role of mediator. The information that had reached the 11th floor of the Greek Police Directorate said that Thimi opened his snack shop years ago, but was unable to keep it open for a long time.
The former Greek presenter was arrested in 2013 along with English drug baron Kevin Steven Hanley. They were part of an organization that had trafficked in Great Britain 2 tons of cocaine and large amounts of marijuana and amphetamines and had laundered 2.4 million British pounds. The currently 61-year-old Briton was one of the main characters of a Hollywood-flavored thriller. He was the number 2 of the mafia organization which since 1996 imported tons of cocaine to English soil and was Brian Wright's connection to the drug lords in Bogota and Medellín. From November 2021 until July 2013 when they were arrested, Scotland Yard's Special Crime Unit had been looking for him. But then he managed to escape with the Greek TV producer from his flat in London, leaving behind 20kg of cocaine, 15kg of cannabis and 15kg of amphetamine. But he forgot to take £2,100,000 in cash with him.
Thimi Prifti alias Thimi Drobonik, the last time he was caught by Greek law enforcement authorities was in May of this year, when he was arrested with three other people as members of a criminal organization that trafficked drugs and tobacco products, such as cigars. According to the evidence in his charge, together with another accused, "they were responsible for finding and supplying quantities of contraband drugs and tobacco to be trafficked, as well as finding customers with their direct collaborators".
But what seems to have aggravated the position of the 56-year-old was the fact that in the police documents it was stated that one of the arrested "was caught possessing on his own account, with the purpose of further trafficking, two nylon packages with a total gross content of cocaine weighing 750 grams". However, Thimi was released under restrictive conditions until the evening of November 30, when he was shot dead by an unknown gunman outside his home in Paleo Faliro.
For Homicide officers who cooperated with the Narcotics Division, the most likely motive of the perpetrator and his associates is "rooted" in the victim's past. The "card" of death that was placed on the 56-year-old shows that some "old account" had not been closed and thus they decided to remove from the street a man who had the respect of the area of outlaws. . However, they did not hesitate to shoot him at close range as soon as he got off the bike. Then the perpetrators disappeared in the dark, while the next day the police combed the narrow streets of the area to see the escape route and possible accomplices.
In the building on "Atlantos" street, the tenants and neighbors did not know the past of the "gentle gentleman from Albania, who lived for many years in the same apartment with his wife and young son". They had contacts and formal relations, without ever hearing anything about the 56-year-old victim.
The three shots fired that night were the only "sound" heard for Thimi. Homicide officials are not pessimistic about the case, but it will certainly take a long time to solve it. In his home, when it was searched after his arrest for illegal drugs and cigarettes, "a fake identity card of the Bulgarian authorities and an obviously fake driver's license of the Bulgarian authorities" were found.
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