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Helios Nanaj, a 37-year-old Albanian who is known as the king of cocaine and who was arrested during the seizure of the largest amount of drugs seized in the history of the county of Gloucestershire, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by English justice.
The so-called "Bald", Nanaj was found guilty of four charges related to the distribution of class A drugs and one charge of importing a record amount of cocaine into Britain.
The 37-year-old was arrested following an investigation by Gloucestershire Police and the National Crime Agency after they analyzed data obtained from a criminal gang's military-style encrypted phones.
The case in which Nanaj was investigated exposed a large part of the UK's cocaine trade, as the ring he ran smuggled several hundred kilograms of the drug into the island.
Images that prosecutors pulled from his phone show that he promoted himself by posing with pictures of money and expensive clothes or equipment, thinking he was completely safe within the network where he communicated with group members.
The cocaine "empire" collapsed when Encrochat was busted by Europol in May 2020, revealing information about drug supply networks across the continent.
That same month, police arrested one of the dealers working for Nanaj in Gloucester with around £60,000 in cash, which he had profited from the sale of two kilos of cocaine.
Dhimitri Gjini, was found with an encrypted Encrochat phone, which was cracked by the NCA to then identify the supplier, who was London-based Nanaj, who used the aliases "Boboku" and "Lilacmind", and at the time was moved large quantities of cocaine across the country, including the county of Gloucestershire.
His chat logs then revealed that he was not only responsible for around 500kg of imported cocaine, but that Nanaj had made so much money that during the pandemic, he was complaining that he had nowhere to hide £1.6m that he was able to.
Prosecutor Ann Hampshire told the court that Nanaj was "the head of a vast organized crime group which used a highly sophisticated network to import and distribute into the UK hundreds of kilograms of highly dangerous drugs".
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