Facebook gangster Hakan Ayik emerges as allegedly Australia’s biggest drugs trafficker
A FUGITIVE drug dealer who has taunted police on social media has emerged as the nation’s number one drugs trafficker, co-ordinating mass shipments of cocaine and meth.
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A FUGITIVE drug dealer who has taunted police on social media has emerged as the nation’s number one drugs trafficker, co-ordinating mass shipments of cocaine and methamphetamine to Australia from his hideaway base in Turkey.
Hakan Ayik fled Australia while on bail in August 2010 when he was wanted for involvement in the importation of 200kg of heroin worth then more than $50 million and was arrested in Cyprus before accidentally being handed bail and again fleeing. He evaded a police sting operation in Spain again in 2015.
But rather than now going into hiding, he has set up an elaborate trafficking network involving drugs and tobacco.
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The Australian Federal Police has internally nominated Ayik, once dubbed the Facebook Gangster for his catch-me-if-you-can taunting posts on social media, as a priority target for their offshore “most wanted” with suspicions he has been behind some of the biggest recent mass shipments of drugs to Australia and in direct contact with a global Who’s Who of the criminal underbelly.
Telecommunication intercepts of associates show the 39-year-old is still very much working within the Outlaw Motor Cycle Gang [OMCG] milieu in Australia and consistently organising, in coded language, large-scale drug runs measured by the tonne.
He is credited with pioneering the use of encrypted mobile apps in Australia to organise offshore container ship trafficking runs.
“He will move anything, any sort of drug, as long as he can make money from it,” one law enforcer said.
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It is understood despite an Interpol arrest warrant, the former Sydney-based Comanchero bikie continues to travel on a fake passport from his home in Istanbul, including trips about Asia where he has established a strong support base with Triad meth-making groups.
He has also links to the recently arrested Dubai-based alleged drugs trafficker Koder Jamaa and is understood to make trips to the Middle East country with two former Australian members of the Comanchero OMCG to launder money and co-ordinate the bulk trafficking of tobacco.
He is a dual citizen and remains out of reach of law enforcement since Turkey does not extradite its citizens.
