Crimestoppers’ latest fugitive campaign, Operation Zygos, launched in September 2012, is led by Crimestoppers and the National Crime Agency (formerly the Serious Organised Crime Agency) and appeals to the public for its help in trying to locate wanted individuals involved in serious criminality, believed to be hiding in Cyprus.
This is the third fugitive campaign launched by the charity and National Crime Agency with similar, successful campaigns launched in Spain and the Netherlands. The wanted individuals are featured on the charity’s Most Wanted section of its website, in the Operation Zygos section of the Most Wanted Campaigns with those being sought wanted for crimes including murder, sexual offences and high value drug offences.
The remaining five individuals wanted under the latest launch of Operation Zygos are:
Timur MEHMET
Dob: 13-04-1973
Nationality: British
Wanted by: HMRC
Description: 5 ft 10 to 6 ft, slim build, black hair, Asian origin
Offences:
Mehmet is wanted for his role in a conspiracy to cheat the public revenue by the operation of a Missing Trader Intra-community (MTIC) fraud. The fraud has caused a loss to the UK of £25 million (€31.5million). He appeared in Court in June 2007 when he was warned that he had to be at Court for his trial in October 2007, and that failure to attend could result in him being tried and sentenced in his absence. He failed to attend the trial and subsequently he was found guilty in his absence and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
View Mehmet appeal on Most Wanted.
Costas SAMPSON
Dob: 15-02-1991
Nationality: Greek Cypriot
Wanted by: Metropolitan Police
Description: 5 ft 9, large build, mediterranean complexion, brown eyes, black cropped/shaved hair, right handed.
Offences:
Sampson is accused of raping a girl he met at a Greek club. The girl was taken unwell after accepting a drink from a stranger, when Sampson and a friend offered to take her home. It was here that Sampson is alleged to have told a friend of the girl that he was a medical expert, and is accused of raping her while she was incapacitated. He is also accused of stealing her mobile phone and flatmate’s laptop and games console.
View Sampson appeal on Most Wanted.
Mehmet SALIH
Dob: 10-06-1971
Nationality: Cypriot
Wanted by: Leicestershire Police
Alias details: Aynur Mehmet SALIH
Description: 5 ft 6″, proportionate build, brown eyes, short dark brown hair, right handed, scar on right eye
Offences:
Between December 2010 and November 2011, SALIH is accused of being involved in a conspiracy to supply controlled drugs of Class A; namely cocaine, in the UK. Between these dates, SALIH was allegedly contacted on a regular basis by an associate for the purposes of buying cocaine. SALIH is then accused of delivering the cocaine and collecting payment from this associate. In May 2011 SALIH allegedly visited Lincolnshire for the purposes of delivering cocaine and collecting payment. The police apparently recovered large amounts of cocaine and upon his arrest he was alleged to be in possession of £20,000 (€25,000).
View Salih appeal on Most Wanted.
Hasan AKARCAY
Dob: 18-07-1956
Nationality: Cypriot
Wanted by: West Yorkshire Police
Alias details: Hassan ETEM/brahim ETEM
Description: 5ft 9, stocky build with a large stomach, balding with black hair at the sides, tanned skin.
Offences:
Akarcay is wanted in connection with the Supply of Class A drugs after an alleged associate was found transporting 12.5 kilos of diamorphine, with a street value of £600,000 (€758,000).
View Akarcay appeal on Most Wanted.
Martin EVANS
Dob: 28-01-1962
Alias DOB: 20/01/1962
Nationality: British
Wanted by: National Crime Agency (formerly the Serious Organised Crime Agency)
Alias details: Martin Roydon EVANS/Martin Royden EVANS/Martin Wayne EVANS/Anthony HALL/Paul KELLY
Description: 5 ft 11 to 6 ft , stocky build, blue eyes, short brown / greying hair, welsh accent, tattoo: “ME” on his right arm
Offences:
Between 1999 and 2001, Evans led an organised crime group supplying Class A drugs, most notably cocaine, MDMA and Ecstasy in the UK. He set up a system whereby drugs were imported to the UK and sold, with the proceeds being converted into foreign currency and transported to the Netherlands for drug purchases.
Evans is also wanted for Fraudulent Trading as director of an incorporated company, Ostrich Centre Limited, in 1995. The firm received investments from the public totaling several hundred thousand pounds, which Evans was found to have stolen.
View Evans appeal on Most Wanted.
If you wish to pass on information about any of the above suspects, please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or 8000 55 11 from Cyprus. Alternatively, fill out our Anonymous Online Form.
