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Worldwide hunt for Hakan Ayik as ANOM sting exposed

Worldwide hunt for Hakan Ayik as ANOM sting exposed
09.06.2021
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A worldwide drugs operation using a fake encryption app organised by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the FBI and Europol has lead them to access some 27 million messages, used across 100 countries and over 1000 arrests.

A centre of the operation is Hakan Ayik, not just Australia’s most wanted but the worlds, Australian police say “he’s a marked man”.

The Australian drug kingpin who was tricked into revealing information about hundreds of organised criminals has been told to hand himself in for his own safety.

Hakan Ayik thought he was helping criminal associates when he suggested they use an encrypted communications app.

What he did not know was that he had been duped by Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers and the FBI.

When he was given a phone handset with the ANOM app on it by undercover agents, and then recommended the messaging service to other criminal associates.

“He was identified because of his standing within the underworld,” a senior investigator quoted by the Australian Telegraph said.

“He was a primary target as someone who was trusted and was going to be able to successfully distribute this platform.”

However, AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw has said this now made him a target.

“Given the threat he faces, he’s best off handing himself into us as soon as he can,” he said.

“He was one of the coordinators of this particular device, so he’s essentially set up his own colleagues.

“The sooner he hands himself in, the better for him and his family.”

Hundreds of people have been arrested and murder plots thwarted after criminal gangs were duped into using the app.

A joint investigation led by the FBI, Europol and AFP saw US officials take control of the encrypted messaging app called ANOM in 2018.

The plan was conceived after the FBI took down a previous secure app favoured by criminals – Phantom Secure.

It saw ANOM downloaded on to special mobile phones that were then bought my criminals on the black market, with the encrypted messaging service hidden within the calculator feature.

There were believed to be around 12,000 of the devices circulating and users required a code from an existing user to access the app, creating an element of trust.

Police forces worldwide were then able to access 27 million messages – exposing the work of organised crime syndicates in more than 100 countries, Europol’s deputy director of operations said on Tuesday.

The operation has been described as “one of the largest and sophisticated” in Europol’s history.

It involved:

• More than 20,000 encrypted devices used by 300 criminals across more than 100 countries
• 27 million messages reviewed over 18 months
• At least 800 arrests across 700 searched locations

What is Ayik’s background?

Also known as Joseph Hakan Ayik, the 42-year-old was born to Turkish migrant parents and is said to have grown up in a working class suburb of Sydney.

Referred to in Australian media as “the Facebook gangster”, Mr Ayik featured in the national press about a decade ago for flashing his expensive lifestyle online amid a number of alleged links to gangs and drug networks.

He has been living outside of the country since he was identified as a prime suspect in a police operation involving alleged heroin trafficking. He was briefly arrested in Cyprus in 2010 but disappeared after being granted bail and has remained on Australia’s Most Wanted lists since.

Police say Mr Ayik has continued his illegal activity while living abroad, with a number of associates arrested in the intervening years since.

This week Australian media carried claims he was one of a group of major crime figures working together on an enterprise known as the “Aussie Cartel” – smuggling an estimated $1.5bn of drugs every year into the country.

A joint investigation by 60 Minutes Australia, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald tracked him down in Turkey where, they allege, he continues to lead a lavish lifestyle abroad investing his wealth into businesses and two homes in prestigious residential areas.

They said he has been living under the name Hakan Reis, having renounced his Australian citizenship, and has reportedly married a Dutch woman and had two children.

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