12.11.2021 – 10:30
State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
Dusseldorf (ots)
Target investigators from the State Criminal Police Office in North Rhine-Westphalia arrested the Turkish national Rahim DIREKCI, who had been wanted by the Krefeld public prosecutor’s office, last Monday (November 8, 2021) in downtown Cologne.
Rahim DIREKCI fled the prison in Krefeld on October 12, 2007 in a previously unexplained manner. There he was in custody after two bank robberies.
In September 2007 he was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Krefeld district court.
A few days after escaping from the Krefeld prison, he was located in Istanbul. As a Turkish citizen, his extradition to German law enforcement authorities was out of the question.
In 2016, the Augsburg District Court issued another arrest warrant for various bank robberies from 2015/2016.
As a result of long-term search measures, the entry of the fugitive DIREKCI into the Federal Republic of Germany via Austria could be traced. In Cologne he was finally arrested by the investigators of the LKA NRW.
Please send any questions to:
State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
Press office
Völklinger Strasse 49
40221 Düsseldorf
Phone: 0211 / 939-6666
Fax: 0211 / 939-7339
Email: [email protected]
Original content from: State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia, transmitted by news aktuell
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