The Turkish Foreign Ministry today asked the United Arab Emirates authorities to arrest and extradite to Turkey the convicted mafia boss Sedat Peker, following the issuance of a red notice by Interpol, the state news agency Anadolu reported.
Packer, 50, became known in the 1990s as a gang leader and was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2007 for crimes involving setting up and running a criminal organization.
He was released a few years ago.
Turkish authorities launched another investigation into Sedat Packer in April last year.
Shortly afterwards, Peker began posting videos on YouTube detailing corruption cases involving top Turkish government officials. Erdogan. Among those named is Interior Minister Suleiman Soilou.
Erdogan denies the allegations.
In these videos, for which Packer has not yet presented evidence, he talks about suspected deaths, rapes and drug trafficking.
Political parties have tried to exploit the allegations with the main opposition party demanding Soylos’s resignation.
Forty-eight percent of those polled said their claims were credible, according to a May poll by Metropoll.
The videos were shot in the United Arab Emirates, with which Turkey has had very bad relations in the past. Lately, however, Ankara has been engaged in an intensive effort to restore relations, with the two countries recently signing 13 agreements in various fields.
Erdogan described the Becker videos, which were watched by millions of people in Turkey, as an attack on the country.
Reuters is unable to confirm whether Becker is in the Gulf Arab country, but authorities estimate he is in Dubai.
In the past, Peker had backed Erdogan’s re-election efforts.
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