One of the most wanted drug lords of Australia, Hakan Ayik, is being suspected of setting up a "super" drug laboratory in India, media report said.
It is the second example of Australian bikie groups setting up operations in South Asia, where the precursor chemicals needed to make amphetamines can be legally sourced in large quantities in a bid to facilitate crime, according to a report in The Age.
The laboratory, capable of exporting tonnes of methamphetamine globally, was probed by the US drug enforcement administration, Australian and Indian authorities in 2010. The agencies suspect it was designed to facilitate industrial-scale illicit drug production.
Law enforcement officials believe one of Melbourne's most notorious organized crime bosses, who is associated with Black Uhlans outlaw motorcycle gang, has established links in Pakistan as part of plans to import drug or engage in money laundering.
Victoria police acting assistant commissioner Doug Fryer had warned that Australian bikie clubs were expanding aggressively overseas, including in Spain, Thailand and Indonesia. The US drug enforcement agency and Indian authorities gathered intelligence that Ayik had travelled in 2010 to India, where he sought to buy an industrial pharmaceutical factory able to produce half a tonne of methamphetamine per week.
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