‘I want all of it’: Sydney man dodges life sentence for half-tonne ‘fantasy’ drug haul
He supplied almost half a tonne of the liquid party drug known as “fantasy” with the help of an international contact named Wuhan Wanda — but Sydney’s Halil Delialioglu could be out of jail on parole as early as next year.
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A Sydney man nabbed with a lingerie bag stuffed with cash, an international drug source named Wuhan Wanda and a half-tonne of the drug “fantasy” could be released as early as next year after escaping a potential life sentence.
He has vowed, through his lawyer, to become a “productive member of society” when that day comes.
In March 2020 NSW Police formed Strikeforce Kirala to dismantle a GBL, ice and heroin supply chain operating in Sydney’s CBD.
Two months later police spotted a white Toyota Corolla hire car driving downstairs in the ritzy Pullman Hotel during a rainy Friday afternoon rush hour, a police fact sheet released by the courts says.
The driver met a man in the hotel lobby and they went to the car together before parting ways — police suspected the meeting had something to do with the elusive drug syndicate.
Police stopped the driver, Halil Delialioglu, as he left the hotel and searched his pockets, finding three grams of the drug ice in his pocket and a syringe.
Near the passenger seat police found a Honey Birdette lingerie shopping bag with boxes inside stuffed with $20,345 cash.
The rain began falling and the car was towed to Day Street station to be searched in the dry underground.
Inside the lingerie bag police found a brown bottle labelled “poison”. They also found a milk carton on the back seat and a coke bottle tucked behind the driver’s seat.
All were filled with a liquid chemical known as “fantasy” or GBL which is used as both a party drug and date-rape drug because of its sedative effects.
A large cardboard box, in the boot of the car, had been addressed to Delialioglu’s family home in Auburn and contained another 25kg of GBL in a water container.
The total 26.5kg of GBL in Delialioglu’s car was 93 to 95 per cent pure.
Investigations revealed Delialioglu was paying just over $40kg for the GBL — cheaper than scotch fillet steak.
The haul was enough to land Delialioglu decades in prison but it was just the tip of the iceberg.
A handwritten drug ledger, in the glovebox, named numerous other people in the GBL syndicate including “JABS”, “SHAQ” and “Scarface” — all with hundreds or thousands of dollars next to their names.
Delialioglu’s capture led police to a warehouse in Regents Park where two pallets of boxes, identical to the ones found in his car, were uncovered.
Investigations revealed a person known only as Wuhan Wanda had shipped almost a half-tonne of GBL to Sydney via airfreight from Guandong, China.
“So GBL not legal in Aus u know,” Delialioglu told Wuhan Wanda on March 10, 2020.
The shipments were addressed to Delialioglu’s family home in Auburn with instructions for the delivery driver to “leave at back door — very important”.
Multiple shipments, however, were set aside at Toll’s Eastern Creek depot and security cameras were watching when Delialioglu walked through the door and collected them.
Usually he was texting Wuhan Wanda as he picked up the shipments of GBL, the fact sheet says.
“I’m ordering another 150kg tomorrow, maybe 200kg,” he wrote on 14 May, 2020.
“I’m gunna get everything you have next week, I want to get all of it.”
When police raided Delialioglu’s family home no drugs were found.
But police pieced together 11 of Delialioglu’s drug deals, totalling 25kg of GBL, in just three weeks.
He doled out litres of GBL to customers across the city; at the Cheesecake Shop in Smithfield, or McDonalds in Lidcombe and Drummoyne, Waverley Oval in Bondi, and suburban Dulwich Hill.
Delialioglu pleaded guilty to supplying 445kg of GBL, which carries a potential life prison sentence.
He was also had three more charges taken into account; dealing with the proceeds of crime, supplying another 1.3kg of GBL and taking part in a small ice supply.
The 40-year-old, earlier this week, was given six years and 3 months prison with a non-parole period of 3 years and 10 months.
Delialioglu’s high profile criminal lawyer, Abbas Soukie, said the drug dealer was happy the case was finally finished.
“In passing sentence, the court properly considered Mr Delialioglu’s challenging subjective circumstances at the time of the offending and his otherwise good character,” Mr Soukie told The Daily Telegraph.
“Mr Delialioglu now looks forward to serving the balance of his sentence and being a productive member of society upon his release.”
He could be released on parole as early as March 2024.
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