Tag: crime

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Like a “gangster movie”: 5 men who abducted, tortured and killed DJ Koray Alpergin given sentences totalling 48 years

A criminal gang behind the kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, killing and disposing of the body of DJ Koray ‘Bizim FM’ Alpergin have been handed long custodial sentences by a judge at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. Koray, 43, a popular radio presenter in the Turkish community, was initially treated as a missing person when police were […]

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Turkish police arrest suspected British crime boss in Istanbul hotel

A British man accused of being the “ringleader” of an armed gang operating in northeast England has been arrested in Istanbul after being made the subject of an Interpol red notice. Shaun Monaghan was detained by Turkish narcotics police, who found the fugitive in a hotel in Istanbul. The arrest was confirmed by Turkish Interior […]

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Lawyer gets battered by prosecutor’s driver and bodyguard after telling them off for driving the wrong way down 1-way street

A complaint has been filed by a Turkish lawyer, Bülent Akbay, against the bodyguard and driver of the İskenderun Chief Public Prosecutor Muhammet Emin Ünalan after the pair brutally him. The incident started outside İskenderun Courthouse in Hatay Province, southern Turkiye. According to a news report in Birgün newspaper, Mr Akbay was driving his car […]

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Gun used in suspected gangland murder of six young Turks in Greece is found

Police have recovered a revolver believed to have been used in the murder of six young Turkish men in Loutsa, a town in Attica, central Greece, earlier this month. The murdered men, all Turkish citizens, were shot on 11 September, allegedly by other Turks, in an incident that bore all the hallmarks of a gangland […]

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Turkish cryptocurrency boss jailed for 11,196 years for defrauding investors

Eyebrows were raised around the world as news of the verdicts for Faruk Fatih Özer, a cryptocurrency businessman, and his two siblings, Serap Özer and brother Güven Özer, circulated. The trio were sentenced to a staggering 11,196 years each after being found guilty of aggravated fraud, leading a criminal organisation and money laundering after their […]