Naked bikie heads overseas after beating a number of charges and getting rid of his ankle bracelets
The former national president of the Lone Wolf Bikie gang Erkan “Eric the Wolf” Keskin has left Australia and is now believed to be living in Turkey. And he’s not the only Australian crime figure to have now set up home overseas.
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The former national president of the Lone Wolf Bikie gang Erkan “Eric the Wolf”' Keskin has left Australia and is now believed to be living in Turkey.
Dubbed the “Naked Bikie”' after he was found nude with a gun in a backyard of a western Sydney home in 2015, the now 42-year-old has spent the last few years fighting court cases in two states.
At one stage the former Turkish soldier was wearing two ankle bracelets — one for NSW Police to keep track of him and another for Queensland Police to monitor him while on bail for drug charges which were later dropped.
He has recently beaten most of the charges against him and soon afterwards applied for his passport and left the country.
“No one is expecting him back,”' an underworld source said.
While many thought his naked romp in Luddenham was due to the fact he was high on drugs, underworld sources and police believe he may have been running from an attempt to kill him at the home.
“He has amassed enormous wealth, probably over $50 million,” a senior law enforcement officer said. “And probably a few enemies as well.”
Until he left Australia Keskin had been living in a number of luxurious addresses including a $8000 a week home in Double Bay and more recently $2000 a week apartment in Kent St in the CBD.
He will have plenty of company in Turkey, where other well known former Sydney bikies are frequent visitors or residents including former Comanchero boss Mark Buddle, Hayak “Little Hux” Arif who fled to Turkey from Dubai before federal police could extradite him on drug charges and Hakan “Big Hux” Ayik, considered one of Australia’s biggest drug importers before he fled Sydney in 2010 and set himself up in Istanbul.
Also now spending most of his time overseas is Hells Angels boss Angelo Pandeli, after his Pyrmont home was raided last December.
Another connected with the Angels is Dallas Fitzgerald, now residing in Russia.