Masood Zakaria, 27, was captured in Bodrum over the weekend by Turkish authorities working on information from the Australian Federal Police who have painstakingly been searching for him for 14-months. Zakaria escaped the police dragnet when it picked up several alleged members of the Allameddine crime family in December 2021, and fled overseas on a fishing trawler to Malaysia, before continuing on to Turkey. Several of his associates were also arrested in the early morning raid, sources in the town said Zakaria is currently being held in a Bodrum prison but is expected to be moved to the capital Ankara, while the AFP apply to extradite him to Sydney.
