Occupied: Executed mobster H. Faliali – Drug smuggling, covert videos and Packer

Turkish Cypriot casino owner and mobster Khalil Faliali, known for his involvement in drug, extortion and kidnapping cases, Khalil Faliali was executed by unknown individuals in Kyrenia on Tuesday night.

The strangers set an ambush and shot Faliali’s car with automatic weapons as he was leaving his house around 7 pm local time. Faliali died of multiple injuries at the hospital, where he was taken, as he received 18 bullets to the body and head, while 48 calyxes were found at the crime scene. His driver was also killed.

According to what was reported by journalists, his execution is connected with the following: illegal purchase of bets of 100 billion Turkish pounds, record of extortions (sex tapes, meetings, etc.) for 400 politicians and state Turks and Turkish Cypriots and of course drug trafficking.

He died at 7:45 p.m. local time, said the chief physician at the hospital. Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the killings, the local newspaper Yenidüzen reported on Wednesday, saying his death was attributed to a clearing of accounts. The Havadis newspaper, in fact, speculates that there was an insider who gave the information to the executors as they shot only against one of the three cars in the line. The woman and his children were in the car just behind where Faliali and his driver were killed.

Faliali, who owned the hotel and casino Les Ambassadors in Kyrenia during the occupation, was accused of having come to the fore a few months ago, through video of exiled mobster Sedat Packerwho revealed the relationship between Faliali and Erkan Gildirim, the son of the former Turkish Prime Minister, who allegedly organized a large drug trafficking ring from Lattakia, Syria.

Peker said in May that Erkan Gildirim had worked with Faliali to smuggle cocaine to Turkey from Panama.

Peker claimed that Faliali and Gildirim’s drug trafficking operation was backed by Mehmet Agar, a former interior minister and police chief whose son, Zulfu Tolga Agar, is a member of parliament for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). . Peker hinted that Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also backed the network. All the defendants, of course, denied Peker’s revelations.

The mighty man in the occupied territories

O Khalil Faliali-business started 20 years ago in the island of Cyprus as security in casinos. Later he managed to work as a hotel manager and casino in the occupied territories. Even to him belongs the Les Ambassadeurs Hotel & Casino.

Obviously as an almighty big businessman, there is not much to associate his name with dark cases from the media in the occupied territories. But in Turkey, his name has been linked to illegal gambling.

In 2016, the Istanbul Police Smuggling Prosecution dismantled an illegal gambling network it hoarded online. Detectives, who revealed that the network had six offices in Istanbul, had placed a camera at one of these addresses. In the camera recordings examined, it was determined that εκατο 3.5 million was counted in that particular office. Research has shown that the gang’s daily trading volume reached $ 40 million.

The investigation of the case went to another level when it showed that Faliali himself, who is allegedly involved in many crimes in Cyprus, was the one who protected the spiral operating in Turkey and Cyprus. It was revealed that the money transfers between the betting offices could have been done with money coming from drug smuggling. In this operation, $ 780 million in assets of Weisel Sahin, who is Agar’s co-accused of the murders of the 1990s, were confiscated.

Faliali, who often helped the occupied territories during the pandemic, is said to have established relations between Syria and Lebanese drug gangs and often refers to the flow of drugs between Lebanon and Europe.

Petros Kranias