Businessman in a Small Village Arrested for Drug Dealing in Bulgaria

Not one, but two questions have been going from person to person in the Sandan village of Leshnitsa in the past few days. But the object of both questions is the same inhabitant of the settlement. Who is the businessman Krasimir Khijev? This is what the local people are asking themselves. And not only this. The one who can work all day with his backhoe to level his neighbor’s land, or the one who makes a secret tunnel in his hotel for a state-of-the-art drug lab, hidden from the prying eyes?

“We know him as a workaholic who does not stop. He is always building something, doing something. He cannot be idle. He came to our village twenty years ago, this is where his second wife Tanya is from. He himself is from the village of Kulata, where his hotel is. He has two sons from his first marriage, from his second he has one son who graduated from high school. We didn’t think he could get involved with drugs,” said residents of the village of Leshnitsa.

They may not have allowed it, but at the moment the hotelier Krasimir Hidjev is under remand “in custody” in custody following a decision of the Plovdiv District Court.

Don Chechi

The businessman was arrested a few days ago in Plovdiv during a drug deal with the well-known under-the-hill dealer Yanko Kamberov, known as Don Chechi from “Stolipinovo”. Both Angel Gardev and Hristo Ivanov from the village of Joakim Gruevo negotiated heroin, and during the transaction 1 kilogram of the drug was seized.

Hidjev is behind bars after an hours-long joint operation by the police directorates in Plovdiv and Blagoevgrad. Ivanov and Gardev took the drug from Hidjev, who was in Sandanski, and transported it to Plovdiv.

Later, they had a meeting with Kamberov in Joakim Gruevo to hand over the parcel to him. According to the prosecutor’s office, the narcotic substance was intended for distribution in Stolipinovo, a neighborhood with a predominantly Roma population in Plovdiv. The businessman’s home was also searched.

The uniformed officers found more drugs. The wardrobe with the cache leading to the drug laboratory was also discovered. During the searches, more than 1 kilogram of dry cannabis, prepared for sale, was found. In his home in the village of Leshnitsa in the Sandan region, 1 kilogram of heroin, a scale and devices for cutting and packaging the drug were found.

Devices

Khijev built a secret tunnel in his hotel where he hid the access to an ultra-modern drug laboratory hidden in a dugout. The entrance to it was behind a double-bottom wardrobe, leaning against the wall of one of the rooms.

The drug laboratory was equipped with expensive lamps and equipment for the production of dry cannabis. “He knows a lot about construction, it’s no problem for him to come up with something like this. This hotel of his has been in bad shape since the 1990s and early 2000s. It was a hangout for prostitutes, and several Greeks died of drug overdoses.” , say the villagers of Khijev.

His name became infamous after a well-known drug trafficker from the Mecca of drugs, the village of Topolnitsa in Petrica, systematically slandered him for being involved in the drug business. So far, Khijev has not been caught with drugs. There is nothing against him in the prosecutor’s office in Blagoevgrad. But there’s always a first time.

The businessman is not a conflicted person, rather he is a closed person who speaks little, he is relatively calm, there were no cases in which he would explode. Something that is typical of most people with more money. “He is not one of those who donate, he is not generous. His wife Tanya sometimes helps for various causes, but not with large sums,” claim residents of the Sandan village, in the center of which the hotelier built his house.

He tried a guest house before marijuana

6-7 years ago he started building a car repair shop, the building is located 600-700 meters from Leshnitsa in the direction of Sandanski. Next to it, a separate warehouse and parking lot for construction equipment – excavators, trucks, concrete trucks. However, he did not like the car service and soon found a new business venture. The building became a welcoming guest house under the name “Sveta Marina”, as the church in the village of Leshnitsa is also called.

At the moment, it is one of the most visited sites in the region of Sandanski municipality. Most of all, the restaurant attracts guests, in which there are about 100 seats and very tasty food. “I held my granddaughter’s birthday party there. Many of our villagers, and not only them, hold their celebrations in this restaurant. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are full of people. The influx is huge, his wife is more involved with this house. It is certain that the family earns well from this activity.

There is also a pool there, in the summer all the children are there, as the entrance is cheaper than other pools in our area,” says an elderly man from Leshnica. Lately, word in the village is that Khijev has sold the construction equipment and the place where it is Therefore, people here are surprised that the businessman is also involved in the distribution of narcotic substances.

Because he has a legal and profitable business – both with the guest house and the hotel. “Although he won’t beat the crap out of him for dealing with drugs. It’s not our job to judge him, and he hasn’t done anything bad to us. On the contrary, he helped with his excavator and the rest of the equipment to anyone who asked him,” they claim. local people quoted by the Telegraph. But Krasimir Khijev will be held accountable before the court for violating the law by going through the “dark tunnel” of crime.