Mehmet Baybasin plotted to import huge quantities of cocaine into Liverpool with the help of local whose 'office' was a telephone box on Old Hall Street Three brothers who are part of a notorious crime group who have controlled much of Europe's drug trade are fighting amongst themselves regarding the ownership of a luxury property. New documents seen by the ECHO show the Baybasin brothers have appeared before the High Court of Justice to contend their ownership on a family home that was ordered to be seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act at Liverpool Crown Court. Turkish national Mehmet Baybasin , now 60, was jailed for 30 years at Liverpool Crown Court in 2011 after plotting with a Merseyside gang to import vast quantities of cocaine from South America.
The gang leader concocted a "sophisticated" plot to get a 40 tonne shipment of cocaine from Columbia to Britain in collaboration with Liverpool gangsters led by Eldonian Village man Paul Taylor. Much of the conspiracy on the Liverpool end was run via a telephone box on Old Hall Street in the city centre , with Taylor using it as his "office" to talk business with Baybasin based in Edgware in London. Mehmet comes from a notorious crime group who are widely known in Europe simply as "The Family" due to their notability.
Mehmet's older brother Huseyin Baybasin is currently serving a life sentence in the Netherlands after being convicted of drug trafficking and conspiracy to murder in 2001. Amsterdam-based Huseyin has been refer.