 | Dutch police have arrested a shooter in last year’s murder of Turkish Cypriot casino boss Halil Falyalı and his driver. Falyalı sustained critical injuries and later died in a hospital, while his driver, Murat Demirtaş, died at the scene.
Six, including brothers Mehmet Faysal Söylemez and Mustafa Söylemez, were detained in connection with the murder. Mustafa Söylemez was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. Mehmet Faysal Söylemez was cleared on the murder charge but found guilty on other charges. |  |
Police found two Kalashnikovs, a 9mm, magazines and ammo in a stream near the crime scene. | 12 people, six in Turkey and six in the north of Cyprus, were arrested in connection with the murder of Halil Falyali. Turkish mob boss Mustafa Söylemez was arrested in Istanbul. The Söylemez Gang is an organized crime group in Turkey headed by Faysal Söylemez and his five brothers. It is involved in drug smuggling, kidnapping, and murder.  |
| Falyali, 64, was a former bodyguard turned casino boss who acculmulated massive wealth through gaming and drug trafficking. Falyali came under the spotlight after exiled Turkish mobster Sedat Peker named him as a key figure in a cocaine ring. Peker implicated Falyali in the seventh of a series of videos he released on social media naming high-ranking government officials in Turkey, as well as Turkish Cypriot politicians and businessmen. Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci accused Falyali of blackmailing politicians and money laundering. Akinci said the government in Ankara protected Falyali. |  |
In 2016 the DEA convicted Falyalı and his brother Hüsnü for laundering funds obtained from an international drug trafficking scheme.
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