“Amsterdam” Turk arrested in mega investigation in Turkey
June 8, 2024

In Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that 62 people were arrested on Friday in an action against organized drug trafficking. One of the main suspects is Orhan Üngan (photo) and also Aydin Razaki, who is well known in the Netherlands. Razaki was involved in the Amsterdam underworld for a long time, but moved to Istanbul.

International scale
Minister Yerlikaya spoke to Turkish media of 'four criminal organizations that are involved in drug trafficking on an international scale and have recently attempted to launder the proceeds of this trade.'

Other main suspects are Orhan Üngan (photo right) and Ibrahim Kurtar and also a veteran in the top class of the Turkish underworld Selim “Vos” Isik.

200 real estate objects, 85 cars and 30 companies, as well as bank assets of suspects, have been seized.

2000 kilos of heroin
Orhan “The Ghost” Üngan is a major heroin trafficker and collector of luxury watches (Turkish media write that his watch collection has been seized. A cousin of Üngan is on the run.

Orhan Üngan is known in Turkey to be involved in a deadly feud with Iranian-Kurdish heroin trafficker Naji Zindashti. The cause of this underworld war is a stock of 2,000 kilos of heroin seized in Greece in 2014.

Ali Akgün
Many people have been killed in a row over Iranian heroin, probably including the Turkish Dutchman and footballer Ali Akgün. The latter is said to have been one of the investors in that affair.

In a 2014 attack on Zindashti, his daughter and a driver were mistakenly killed. Ali Akgün was shot dead later that year. After that, Orhan Üngan's brother was shot dead in Istanbul-Kad köy in 2019 .

Holleeder
Aydin Razaki survived an attack near the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium in 2007. During a raid on his home, investigators found dozens of mobile phones. Research then showed that Razaki maintained contacts with, among others, Willem Holleeder and Dino Soerel.

Passage process
Aydin Razaki was a close contact of Ali Akgün in the Netherlands and played a role in the margins of the Passage liquidation process. A key witness, Okan Fidan, who was also shot dead in 2014, made a safe statement in 2009, which ended up in the Passage file after his death.

Okan Fidan had been Razaki's bodyguard. Razaki suspected him of involvement in the attack at the Olympic Station.

Key witness Fidan said that the chairman of the then Amsterdam football club Türkiyemspor, Nedim Imaç, also a suspect in heroin trafficking, was murdered partly on the orders of Ali Akgün (in 2007).

Akgün and others are said to have been involved in the execution. According to the key witness, Razaki was one of those others.

https://www.crimesite.nl/amsterdamse-turk-gearresteerd-in-mega-onderzoek-in-turkije/