I have done a little more digging
did a GoofBay search to see what else he buys
weird !!! ...... he spends about $1000 a week on eBay .... he buys lots of scissors and shaving brushes ... plus a pile of other odd stuff, plastic googles and things a jeweller would use
then I thought to google his name ..... BINGO
he's not Yugoslav he's Ukranian
Barber cuts losses and admits bribery attempt
By Chee Chee Leung
October 1, 2004
A barber known as Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx became entangled in a hairy situation when he was caught with a salon of stolen goods. In a bid to avoid charges, the hairdresser tried to cut a $3000 deal with a policeman - but the attempted bribe was caught on tape.
Edward Xxxxxxxx, of Balaclava's Edward Xxxxxxxx Men's Hairstyling, pleaded guilty to acts tending to and intended to pervert the course of public justice. The County Court heard that police found suspected stolen goods including computers, cigarettes and alcohol during raids on Xxxxxxxx's home and shop in October 2001.
In January and February the following year, Xxxxxxxx met Sergeant Cameron Duncan three times and offered $1000 for the cigarettes, and $2000 if his interview tape was destroyed.
He told Sergeant Duncan: "I'm a businessman. I think you are a businessman too... there must be a way out of this for me if I pay you." Tuchinsky asked if they could shift the blame to his wife, because "the court treats a woman better than a man".
Prosecutor Bob Johnson said Xxxxxxxxx tried to get the sergeant involved in a corrupt relationship, and passed him a wallet of cash. "It tears at the very fabric of law enforcement in this state," Mr Johnson said.
Xxxxxxxx, 40, of Mount Waverley, was fined $3000 without conviction by a magistrate in January 2003 after pleading guilty to handling more than 80 cartons of stolen cigarettes.
Defence lawyer Tom Danos said it was Sergeant Cameron who suggested destroying the tape. He told the court his client was a hard-working migrant from Ukraine, a country where, "as a matter of public record, corruption with officialdom is an almost accepted way of life".
Xxxxxxxx was bailed and will be sentenced next Friday.
when you look up the white pages for the salon mentioned in the story it's the address he gave me so I assume he took the premises over from the shoe shop