Lone Wolf bikie boss Erkan Keskin farewelled at Auburn Mosque funeral

A motorcade of bikies, including Comanchero Tarek Zahed have revved their Harley-Davidson motorbikes in a show of force for Erkan ‘The Wolf’ Keskin.

A thundering motorcade of Lone Wolf bikies dressed in club colours has descended on a western Sydney mosque for the funeral of feared boss Erkan “Eric the Wolf” Keskin.

About 200 mourners – including many wearing Lone Wolf and Mongols colours – arrived at the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque on Monday to farewell the father of four who was known as the “Naked Bikie”.

Keskin - whose photo mourners pinned to their chests in a sign of respect - died from a suspected heart attack last week in Turkey after partying for six days in a row.

Keskin’s coffin arriving at the mosque.

Motorbikes escorted the hearse carrying Keskin’s body after the funeral.

Mourners at the funeral.

Mourners at Rookwood Cemetery after Keskin’s funeral.

The drug tsar had left Australia in 2019 and he had amassed a wealth estimated to be anywhere between a startling $200-300 million before his death.

Car loads of officers from NSW Police’s Strike Force Raptor – the specialised squad established to crackdown on bikie gangs across the state – began doing laps of the mosque in the morning well before mourners arrived.

Just before 1pm multiple Lone Wolf members rolled into the mosque’s street while revving their Harley-Davidson motorbikes in a show of force.

Comanchero Tarek Zahed also arrived at the mosque on a motorbike, while another mourner arrived in a red Ferrari sports car.

Lone Wolf bikie Erkan Keskin with wife Kristen in 2018. Picture: AAP

Mourners at Rookwood Cemetery after Keskin’s funeral.

Motorbikes escorted the hearse after the funeral.

Mourners at the funeral.

Mongol bikies were also present at the funeral.

Significantly, a big contingent of Mongol bikies was also present as the service started inside the mosque with Islamic prayers.

Zahed was spotted helping to get a bike helmet off one man after it appeared to become stuck on his head.

There were also veteran bikies present who have been in the scene for more than 40 years.

Keskin’s coffin was draped in a green cloth that was emblazoned with gold Middle Eastern writing.

Keskin’s coffin is placed into the hearse after his funeral.

Motorbikes escorted the hearse to Rookwood Cemetery after the funeral.

Motorbikes were revved in support.

Distraught mourners broke down and hugged one another as the coffin was carried inside to the mosque.

At one point an agitated man who was yelling to officers was put against the mosque’s fence and frisked before being allowed to enter.

Plainclothes officers sitting in cars also took photos of mourners as they arrived.

At the end of the service Keskin’s coffin was carried back and put inside the hearse before the loud motorcade of bikies escorted the vehicle to Rookwood Cemetery.

Arabic hymns echoed around the southern corner of Rookwood Cemetery, where Keskin was buried on Monday afternoon in the cemetery’s new Muslim burial site.

Several marked police vehicles watched over the burial from the hilly terrain surrounding ‘the Wolf’s’ plot, while a heavier display of police force waited at the East Street entrance to the cemetery a few hundred metres away.

Mourners watched on silently, some smoking cigarettes, as hymns played over a loudspeaker system ahead of the former bikie boss’s burial.

Tears for the drug tsar.

Mourners at Rookwood Cemetery after Keskin’s funeral.

Mourners in their Mongols jackets outside the mosque.

About two dozen motorbikes had travelled as part of the funeral procession from the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque, part of a larger group of mourners dressed largely in black and punctuated by bikies wearing jackets emblazoned with their gang colours.

Almost all of those on motorcycles were pulled over at an impromptu roadblock set up by police on East Street immediately after the funeral ended shortly after 3pm, while a PolAir helicopter buzzed overhead.

Police had blocked off one of the turns from the cemetery, corralling bikies and some vehicles from the wedding to a police check-point where those on motorbikes had to dismount.

Keskin was seen as one of the most dangerous drug bosses in Sydney’s criminal network despite living overseas for the past two years.

NSW Police had never stopped looking into his roles in a string of murders, drug importations and money laundering.

There are no specific laws that prohibit bikie members from wearing colours in public in NSW.

Consorting laws are one measure used to disrupt bikies. Police also use serious crime prevention orders, public safety orders and other compliance-based measures on members of these groups.