The husband of a glamorous Met Police officer has been jailed for 18 years for selling vast amounts of cocaine stamped with the logo of the luxury watch brand Hublot.
Albanian Julian Agalliu, 47, used EncroChat to carry out drug deals before the encrypted app favoured by gangsters was taken down by international law enforcement in 2020.
The former ballet dancer boasted to associates that he was married to PC Rasvinder Agalliu, 45, – who told her YouTube followers how to create the ‘perfect booty’ – and was warned to tell his wife to ‘hide’ documents as the net closed.
National Crime Agency (NCA) officers uncovered messages on EncroChat referring to 100kg cocaine parcels, stamped with the Hublot logo, as well as gun deals, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Jurors were told how cocaine was also found at the couple’s home in Hadley Wood, north London. PC Agalliu was not charged with drug offences but last December she was found to have breached the Met’s standards of professional behaviour and was sacked from the force.
Albanian Julian Agalliu (pictured with his now ex-Met wife), 47, used EncroChat to carry out drug deals before the encrypted app favoured by gangsters was taken down by international law enforcement in 2020
The former ballet dancer boasted to associates that he was married to PC Rasvinder Agalliu (pictured), 45, – a YouTuber who told viewers how to create the ‘perfect booty’ – and was warned to tell his wife to ‘hide’ documents as the net closed
Agalliu denied but was convicted of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and conspiracy to supply class B drugs, possession with intent to supply cocaine and possession of criminal property.
He was jailed for 18 years at Woolwich Crown Court while associate Daniel McNeil-Duncan, 37, was locked up for 17 years.
Prosecutor William Davis said the pair were identified as users of EncroChat.
He told the court: ‘Those devices were used to organise the supply of large quantities of cocaine and cannabis.
‘It was a secure communications system used by organised criminals. They believed it kept them beyond the reach of law enforcement agencies.’
‘An aggravating factor is the use of sophisticated methods of technology to avoid detection.’
PC Agalliu was based at the central west borough command unit after signing up 19 years ago. She was also a personal trainer who told YouTube viewers how to create the ‘perfect booty’.
Last year she was crowned Miss Enfield in the UK’s National Miss pageant competition in the classic category.
But she was booted out of the force in December 2022 after a set of digital scales and more than £27,000 in cash was found at the couple’s home during a police raid in June 2020.
A police radio, belonging to a colleague, was also found in PC Agalliu’s handbag.
PC Agalliu was based at the central west borough command unit after signing up 19 years ago. She was also a personal trainer who told YouTube viewers how to create the ‘perfect booty’
Cocaine was found in a drawer containing passports at the Agalliu family home while the drug was also found inside a Louis Vuitton box under the couple’s bed.
Officers also recovered a book from a second rented home nearby which contained the ‘Nicemoon’ handle handwritten alongside drug deal records.
Body armour belonging to PC Agalliu was also found with handcuffs, items of uniform and a set of case papers. A large number of cannabis plants under cultivation were also found at the property.
PC Agalliu claimed she was unaware of Julian’s criminal activities and said she believed he was making up to £4,000 a week as a private chef for professional footballers in the Hadley Wood area.
Her husband used the handle ‘Nicemoon’ on Encrochat while McNeil-Duncan was ‘Ekspinoza’ in thousands of messages between March and June 2020.
The prosecutor had read a series of messages from Nicemoon to a criminal contact in which he says: ‘I’m driving my wife to work.’
The associate replied: ‘Oh good to station police?’
ANPR data tracked the couple’s Audi to the police station in Kensington where PC Agalliu was working that day.
Agalliu also boasted his wife had been promoted to sergeant in the Met and shortly before law enforcement agencies infiltrated EncroChat he was asked if his wife knew about the operation.
The contact messaged him: ‘What if she gets hold of the EncroChat? Tell her to hide the papers.’
PC Agalliu was not charged with drug offences but last December she was found to have breached the Met’s standards of professional behaviour
In police interview Agalliu claimed a stripper, who also worked as a sex worker, had set him up and ruined his life.
McNeil-Duncan, of Brentwood, Essex, earlier admitted two charges of conspiracy to supply.
Agalliu, from Hadley Wood, denied but was convicted of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, conspiracy to supply class B drugs, possession with intent to supply cocaine, and possession of criminal property.
PC Agalliu was not charged with drug offences but last December she was found to have breached the Met’s standards of professional behaviour.
The misconduct panel also found she breached the force’s standards on respect of honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct, duties and responsibilities and orders and instructions.
Lewis Power, defending Agalliu, said he was schooled in ballet from the age of ten and had danced all over the world.
He said: ‘He tells me that in 2018 he became addicted to cocaine and started mixing with the wrong crowd. He was in custody during Covid, locked up for 23 hours a day.
‘He has shown impeccable behaviour inside. He has cleaned himself of drugs providing negative test results. He has worked in the prison environment.’
Judge Ruth Downing accepted Agalliu was in a difficult financial situation at the time but stressed that this was not an excuse.
She said: ‘Millions of people find themselves in difficult financial situations and they do not all go and sell cocaine.
‘Crime like this generates, crime, violence and breakdowns in other people’s family relations.
‘You need to know exactly what your involvement means to thousands of people foolish enough to take drugs.’
Agalliu was jailed for 18 years while McNeil-Duncan was jailed for 17 years.
DailyMail
