5 International Drug Lords of All Time


Bangalore: Illicit drug trafficking is considered to be the fastest means of getting rich and powerful in the world. Various criminal masterminds across the globe have their hands on the international trade in drugs. Here are the names of the drug traffickers who have big names in this trade, as listed by the Economic Times.

1. Hakan Ayik:

Hakan Ayik is one of the most wanted drug lords of Australia and bears the typical looks of a gangster with a macho man physique, tattoos all over his body with flashy cars and jewel-studded watches. He is well known as ‘Facebook Gangster’ since most of his activities are displayed on his social networking sites, mainly Facebook.

Ayik is a tech savvy modern criminal who is frequently on the move from one place to another and as such it is difficult to track his whereabouts. He smuggles everything from marijuana to meth to smack into Australia and uses Comanchero biker gang to distribute his supplies. Several members of the gang are facing drug charges as they are associated with him in this illegal trade.

Through his biker’s connection, it was reported that Ayik was planning to set up a "super" lab in India in order to use it for manufacturing synthetic drugs on an industrial scale and to smuggle them across South Asia.

Since early 2010, this 'Facebook Gangster' is on the run and is declared as the most wanted in Australia for involving of importation of heroin from Bangkok to Sydney which was worth 50 million Australian dollars.

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