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| Subject: AnCaps Good News: Entrepreneurial fugitive bikie suspected of setting up industrial-scale meth lab in India Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:00 am | |
| ONE of Australia's most wanted crime figures, Comanchero bikie drug supplier Hakan Ayik, is suspected by authorities of setting up a ''super'' drug laboratory in India capable of exporting tonnes of methamphetamine around the world.
The lab was investigated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Australian and Indian authorities in 2010. The agencies suspect it was designed to facilitate industrial-scale illicit drug production.
Read an edited extract from The Sting: Australia’s plot to crack a global drug empire Advertisement: Story continues below
It is the second recent example of Australian bikie groups setting up operating hubs in south Asia - where the precursor chemicals needed to make amphetamines can be legally sourced in large quantities - in order to facilitate crime.
Law enforcement officials also believe that one of Melbourne's most notorious organised crime bosses - who is associated with the Black Uhlans outlaw motorcycle gang - has established ties with figures in Pakistan, including a senior government official, as part of plans to conduct drug importations or engage in money laundering.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/fugitive-bikie-suspected-of-setting-up-industrialscale-meth-lab-in-india-20120324-1vr41.html#ixzz1q7KtxHCM
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