Necati Coskun Arabaci was dining in Nitra, western Slovakia last month when a dozen armed cops swooped in to apprehend him. Cops issued Arabaci with an expulsion order, with a 30-day deadline to leave Slovakia. Slovak law prohibited his detention for deportation. Arabaci was arrested upon his arrival at Izmir’s Adnan Menderes Airport from Belgrade October 5, 2025. Arabaci, 53, faces charges including “establishing an organization to commit crimes” and “aggravated extortion,” according to the prosecutor’s office. Arabaci is the defacto European leader of the HAMC. He served part of a nine-year sentence in Germany and was deported to Türkiye in 2007 with a ban on returning to Germany. He has a long-standing EU warrant.
Necati ‘Neco’ Arabaci (born 14 February 1972) is a Turkish-German gangster and high ranking member of the HAMC. Arabaci resembles a Hollywood movie star from the 90s. The serious gang boss, also known as the Cologne Godfather, was celebrated on social media. Videos of Arabaci in Monaco were circulating on TikTok, some of which had millions of views. The drug baron seemed to revel in the videos. He appeared in expensive cars, including a Rolls-Royce with a Zurich license plate in Monte-Carlo. Arabaci parading in Monaco with bodyguards flaunting his wealth is a surprise. The gangster being an internet star on TixTox is unexpected behaviour of the presumptive leader of European Hells Angels. His account has since been deleted.
The Arabaci clan controlled the bouncer scene of the nightclubs in Cologne’s entertainment district, the Kölner Ringe, and his gang recruited women to work as prostitutes. Arabaci also controlled brothels in the Rhein-Ruhr region of Germany. Arabacı was active in Cologne. In 2002 he was arrested in Germany for pimping, human trafficking, assault, extortion, weapons and racketeering. He was sentenced to nine years in prison and deported to Turkey in 2007. During his detention in Germany, Arabacı plotted to kill the prosecutor, and even hired a killer for the task.
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Erhan Akyol, right hand man to Necati Arabacı was shot by a helmeted assailant while eating on the terrace of a restaurant in Istanbul in April 2025. |
Akyol was shot in the calf. He was involved in murder plots with Iranian operative HA Ramin Yektaparast. Yektaparast was killed by a Mossad agent in April 2024.
In 2010 Arabaci took part in a meeting of HA bosses in Izmir, Turkey after being appointed president of the Hells Angels MC Nomads Turkey. By 2013 Arabaci was seen as the new leader of the European Hells Angels, after leader Frank Hanebuth was busted in Spain. In 2015, Spanish cops issued a warrant for Arabaci’s arrest, valid in the EU.
High-status Hells Angels Necati Arabacı was nabbed by Turkish security in western Izmir province’s Çeşme district in 2020. He was released. Turkey doesn’t extradite it’s citizens.
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