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Türkiye smashes int’l crime ring Comanchero, nab 37 suspects

Turkiye’s interior minister revealed on Thursday that the country had successfully disrupted the international criminal organization Comanchero, apprehending Hakan Ayık, a prominent fugitive wanted in Australia for drug smuggling, along with 36 other suspects in Istanbul.

The apprehensions specifically targeted the armed motorcycle gang, which was allegedly engaged in drug trafficking, manslaughter, global looting and money laundering, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

U.S. and New Zealand authorities have also pursued the organization.

Dubbed the “Facebook gangster” in Australia, Ayık has been on the most wanted list in New South Wales state for more than a decade for the “supply of large commercial quantities of drugs.”

The FBI has said he unwittingly helped authorities monitor and arrest hundreds of suspected criminals in recent years using an FBI-run phone app.

Yerlikaya said Türkiye “will not pardon organized crime gangs, drug dealers,” adding, “Regardless of their scale, we will dismantle organized crime groups and bring them to justice.”

The captured gang leader Ayık, who is also known as “Reis,” and Duax Hohepa Ngakuru have led the crime ring since at least last year, Yerlikaya said.

Like Ayık, Ngakuru has been wanted in New Zealand.

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/investigations/turkiye-smashes-intl-crime-ring-comanchero-nab-37-suspects

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