Hakan Arif, a former Comanchero bikie, is on the run from authorities, police believe
The alleged boss of a $1billion global drug smuggling enterprise has escaped to Turkey before he could be extradited to Australia, a police source has revealed.
Hakan Arif was arrested in Dubai with five others including Michael and Fadi Ibrahim as part of an international investigation last August.
The former Comanchero bikie known as ‘Mr Billionaire’ and ‘Little Hux’ could not be extradited to Australia because he had temporary residency in the UAE.
After being released from a Dubai prison cell on bail, he has now gone off grid and is believed to have fled to Turkey on a fake passport.
A senior New South Wales police source told The Daily Telegraph that Arif is ‘missing in action’.
‘It’s suspected he is in Turkey,’ the source added.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Australian Federal Police for comment.
Four of the men arrested with Arif – Mustapha Dib, Koder Jomaa and Michael and Fadi Ibrahim, who are brothers of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim – were extradited to Australia in September.
Fadi Ibrahim (pictured) was arrested in Dubai on money laundering charges and extradited in September
Michael Ibrahim (pictured) is facing life in jail if convicted of his alleged role in a drug smuggling ring
Arif and Stephen Elmir remained in prison in Dubai because they are UAE residents.
Arif is named in Dubai court documents as boss of the billion-dollar drug ring which allegedly planned to ship uncut cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine from Europe to Australia.
Elmir flew to Dubai in April after his brother-in-law Safwan Charbaji was shot dead.
It was reported before any of the Dubai Six had been extradited that five of them planned to become Lebanese citizens in a bid to escape extradition. Some of the men could face life in jail in Australia.
Fadi Ibrahim is charged with money laundering offences related to alleged tobacco smuggling.
Two of the ‘Dubai Six’ arrested in August could not be extradited in the UAE’s largest city (pictured)
Sydney’s Koder Jomaa (left) was one of six men arrested in raids in Dubai on August 8. Right: John Ibrahim who has not been charged
John Ibrahim, whose home at Dover Heights in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was also raided on August 8, has not been charged with any offence.
Arif and Elmir are accused of being involved in a plan to smuggle 1.8 tonnes of MDMA, 136 kilograms of cocaine and 15 kilograms of ice into Australia.
The drugs, with a street value of $810 million, were seized in The Netherlands before the men were arrested in Dubai.
The Dubai Six allegedly used encrypted BlackBerry devices to plan their criminal activity with Arif using the monikers ‘Mr Billionaire’ and ‘Little Hux’ while Elmir was known as ‘Mr Worldwide’ and ‘Staypaid’.
Fadi Ibrahim caught on surveillance camera as part of an international police operation
Sydney man Mustapha Dib was extradited from Dubai after his arrest on August 8
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