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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 26 May 2022)
Baron doesn't look so good - eating up the profits?
Five months ago, narcotics police in Istanbul launched an operation
against drug deliverers know as "torbacılar", who were carrying
methamphetamines, and jailed them. An investigation of the "torbacılar"
led police to a number of Iranians and a raid in April resulted in the
seizure of 15 kilograms of the drug and more leads.
Police determined that the drug gang's headquarters was a villa in
a wooded area of the Beykoz section of Istanbul and that the gang
leader was Iranian R.K., who was importing the raw material for the
methamphetamines from Iran and Europe inside TIRs (cargo tractor
trailers). In order to transform the raw material to the drug itself,
a chemist was brought in from Iran.
Iranian chemist, in happier times.
On 19 May, police found 170 kilograms of methamphetamines in a
car they stopped and again a number of Iranians were arrested.
'Baron' R.K. got word that police were closing in on him so he fled the
villa in a car. But police tailed R.K. to the Merter section of the city,
where he got out of the car with an attaché case filled with drugs and
was taken into custody. Simultaneously, police raided the villa in
Beykoz and took 4 people into custody.
In the villa, sniffer dogs found 1 ton, 117 kilograms of crystal and liquid
methamphetamine drugs and 123 kilograms of liquid chemicals used
in making the drug. Three other separate raids yielded more of the
drugs, making the total seizure 1 ton, 317 kilograms, the most ever
seized in Turkey surpassing the 1 ton, 18 kilograms seized at the
Gürbulak border gate on the Iranian border in March. On the street,
methamphetamines sell for 125,000 TL (about $7,600) per kilogram,
making the value of the seized drugs worth 139,625,000 (about $8.5
million).
Baron and his chemist trying to get away from it all.
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