Hakan Ayik has been singled out by federal police as at high risk from his fellow criminals because he hailed an encrypted messaging app that allowed police to watch as every illicit deal was made
Hakan Ayik - dubbed the Facebook Gangster - was unwittingly a key part to a recent police operation that resulted in the arrests of hundreds of criminals
Leading criminologists believe flamboyant Facebook Gangster and alleged drug lord Hakan Ayik will never give himself up after being caught in Operation Ironside.
21:07 EDT, 9 June 2021
A photo of crime lord Hakan Ayik enjoying a luxury dinner alongside a former top Comancheros bikie has re-surfaced, showing the Australian crime king pin in happier times, unaware his high life as the Facebook Gangster was about to come to an abrupt end this week.
The photo with ex-Comanchero Baris Tukel sharing a dinner with a bevy of attractive friends in Istanbul would now seem a world away for Ayik, who is a wanted man not just by authorities but now also by fellow gangsters who blame him for the police raid this week which smashed their violent drug syndicates.
05:16 EDT, 9 June 2021
Heavily-armed tactical officers smashed down the door of an alleged drug kingpin with a battering ram before storming the property as part of Operation Ironside.
Dramatic bodycam footage from Australia s most audacious organised crime sting shows police make their way through a house at Upper Coomera on the Gold Coast, where they allegedly uncovered cocaine, MDMA, steroids, large sums of cash, ammunition, three mobile phones, scales and a gel blaster handgun.
The 35-year-old man charged with serious drug offences also had an impressive collection of designer caps.
He appeared in Southport Magistrates Court today charged with three counts of trafficking dangerous drugs, four counts of possession of a dangerous drug and one count each of possessing explosives and dealing in the proceeds of crime.