Newly released recordings have shed further light on a criminal organisation accused of trafficking drugs to tourists in Mykonos, revealing conversations about drug quality, threats against authorities, pink cocaine sales and plans to expand the group’s activities.
Police officers from the Narcotics Division recorded conversations between members of the alleged organisation. The recordings reportedly reveal the distribution of different types of drugs to tourists and customers through the group’s fleet of VIP vans operating on the island.
The conversations also provide insight into the group’s alleged financial activities and ambitions for the future.
Dialogue over the quality of drugs
In one conversation, a distributor tells the alleged leader that a customer complained about the quality of a product.
Distributor: “One of my customers upset me a little. He said, ‘Mate, this was shit, completely shit.’”
Leader: “I’m telling you, I work with it… The only person I’ve heard that from so far is you.”
Distributor: “Yeah. I told him, ‘Mate, when you came in July, was it good?’ He told me it was good, but I told him it was exactly the same. What the fuck could have happened?”
Leader: “Mate, maybe it’s getting damp?”
Distributor: “No, where I keep it… I mean, should I… should I heat it up? Do you think it’ll get back to normal?”
Threats against the authorities
In another conversation, the alleged members discuss possible retaliation against authorities.
Leader: “We should show up there… fuck it, two vans, full of people… We’ll beat the shit out of them. And, and we’ll put the pink tickets in their mouths, all of them.”
Distributor: “Fuck, yeah. We need to make it like Mexico now.”
Leader: “Fuck, we should hire some Mexicans.”
Distributor: “With hoods, with hoods, they could show up and beat the shit out of them.”
Leader: “Unconscious. Unconscious. Unconscious. I’m telling you… Basically, they should leave there on stretchers.”
Pink cocaine and the “lahmacun” code name
Another conversation concerns an order for pink cocaine from tourists. The alleged members reportedly used the code name “lahmacun” for the substance.
Leader: “I want… all the ‘lahmacun’ that you have in the car.”
Regional member – Transfer driver: “Mate, our friends here want the secret recipe.”
Leader: “The ‘lahmacun’?”
Regional member – Transfer driver: “Yes.”
Leader: “Tell them, ‘call Chris.’”
Plans to expand their activities
The alleged Turkish leader also appears in the recordings discussing plans to expand his business activities.
According to the case information, the man operated a transfer company with a fleet of seven vehicles. He also reportedly owned two properties in Attica, leased a 250-square-metre parking facility in Athens and owned a building in Turkey.
In another conversation, he discusses finding a commercial property where several companies could operate.
Leader: “Do you want us to find a shop in the factory area, get three or four companies together, rent it and tell everyone to fuck off?”
Distributor: “Of course, brother, but where are you going to find such a place?”
Leader: “Whoever looks, finds. Whoever gets involved, finds… It’s not the way you’re saying it. We’ll all work and we’ll be legal, and you’ll see, we’ll have customers and everything… We’ll become…”
He then makes a striking reference to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Leader: “Before Erdogan comes, I will conquer Mykonos myself and I’ll hand it to him ready.”
Nine members arrested
Greek police arrested nine alleged members of the organisation during the morning of Friday, August 21, with assistance from officers from the Special Operational Teams of the Sub-Directorate of Intelligence and Special Actions of the Directorate for Combating Organised Crime.
Police also arrested a 22-year-old man for possession of narcotic substances.
The recordings form part of the evidence gathered during the investigation into the alleged drug-trafficking organisation operating in Mykonos.
(source: TheTOC.gr)
