{"id":73922,"date":"2025-03-31T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73922"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:39:37","slug":"the-truth-behind-why-turkish-barber-shops-are-used-by-criminal-gangs-for-money-laundering-as-police-launch-probe-into-boom-on-britains-high-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/the-truth-behind-why-turkish-barber-shops-are-used-by-criminal-gangs-for-money-laundering-as-police-launch-probe-into-boom-on-britains-high-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind why Turkish barber shops are used by criminal gangs for money laundering as police launch probe into boom on Britain&#8217;s high streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/31\/12\/93009649-14554181-Pictured_is_a_street_in_Tunbridge_Wells_Kent_where_Mr_Jafari_s_s-a-15_1743419376303.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured is the street in\u00a0Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where Mr Jafari's shop is located\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;copycat&#8217; factor is one of the reasons for the growing popularity of Turkish-style barber shops among drug gangs needing to launder money, an expert said today amid a new police crackdown.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14554181\/truth-Turkish-barber-shops-used-criminal-gangs-money-laundering.html\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The &#8216;copycat&#8217; factor is one of the reasons for the growing popularity of Turkish-style barber shops among drug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/turkish-barbers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73923,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73922\/revisions\/73923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}