{"id":9880,"date":"2025-07-23T12:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:27:46","slug":"gurtaj-sandher-sami-el-helou-and-naji-sherifi-zindashti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=9880","title":{"rendered":"Gurtaj Sandher, Sami El-Helou, Naji Sherifi Zindashti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjnPlWe6NfKN1rkvz1mMa_fGXO5aMfFohEqG7OxYg-RI5yHf_wodGv146al_fDzvYX7RWkOJIKJD14L6gJitnR_TyRdxQVnhROlOyPthoKf1tFB3Lzs6WJlw60PRg-m-3PsOuX0o8slZgCHEtHhJAPNyn3Mk2pJlIRidP1nwEoofC1ZlB0S7776_rimoZI\/w283-h161\/5feeea082269a20dd0365ac5.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"161\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIn June 2014 cops in Turkey confiscated two tons of heroin belonging to brothers Orhan and \u0130lhan Ungan and \u00c7etin Ko\u00e7. Drug kingpin Naji Sherifi Zindashti had ratted out his main competition in the heroin trade. Later that year 2 people were gunned down in a jeep belonging to Zindashti. The hitmen killed Zindashti&#8217;s daughter and his driver. They thought Zindashti was in the car. Zindashti decided to kill everyone related to the event. The identities of the killers reached police, one of whom supplied it to Zindashti. Hitmen Hac\u0131 Osman Sezen and Turgay Akar were shot and killed in Istanbul in December 2014. Ali Ekber Akg\u00fcn, another man involved, was also killed.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhQtiswL98EKqb5jv-qmpXNNvrZUcOwmZoUY0KhxjCep3kpgVXC68ecVaBUmc5NN9LdcluwZL62tct_ZZVwE5bxt2NHsVhsDEdVM4fh29p5hzP8ubVPplmrqmOj8WhorSo02NSsBd9xIiEEDZaGKWZUNSU05JwP7ywQQsc-oQnD5qkVWmUl8QrCp9X2XOY\/w355-h360\/s-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<p><Td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj6WPZfbONXxrA7XvkPXtsbhgdc5lFxyt7tdmM-3dHfx2GhblZBdL5CuMGtpPrf0FFHU0VPGMUvT9ukqlmiD1hC2oYDR_R8gK2e59OTvmttti4ysnl0BXXEQDla1k13qJVfwkBZM3OP-OAbvjg_yLeLlBI5RDW8DBfdwcZDEAmQa1Y8OAvOL9wt7WqmE7U\/w302-h192\/s-297.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"192\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nHac\u0131 Osman Sezen and Turgay Akar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9884\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2381134_549a67a7f61784627b0f5da95f31822f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2381134_549a67a7f61784627b0f5da95f31822f.jpg 598w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2381134_549a67a7f61784627b0f5da95f31822f-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2381134_549a67a7f61784627b0f5da95f31822f-573x1024.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In 2016 Cetin Ko\u00e7 was hit seven times in the head and twice in the chest by Russian and Austrian weapons equipped with silencers in a well planned hit in Dubai. Ko\u00e7 died instantly, his car running.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hit men Harpreet Singh Majhu and Orosman Jr. Garcia-Arevalo fled to the airport and were on a plane back to Canada before Dubai cops fingered them as the killers. Cetin Koc used the identity of a shepherd in Turkey. The real name of the murdered drug lord was Parvis Kashavarz Omarabadi. Sami El-Helou was the taskmaster for the hit, working for Iranian drug lord Naji Sharifi Zindashti. Naji Sharifi Zindashti is a close associate of Sami El-Helou and a key supplier of heroin to the Sinaloa Cartel. Zindashti met with Sami El-Helou a week before the murder.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh7e_h6prwb5gau4XU2lXOZ1SRcUT0Lueeclp8g7MSG1-FpOxdYaJmzi-l-TzFrgWEb2-RUn8M1V9QhaPHIvarG0gyH1PQJ_qYfSPMchkXoTXm9bLAQYDf5yMqsvf4Lm8DZRXJZIh8M4NZxMMDE97rGt8Z0CWeipqkQ_1JIUATlVBc5-Ot10jbOeqB7WbU\/w273-h273\/download%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td>A year was put into it\u2019s planning. The day before the hit, Sami El-Helou met with Harpreet Singh Majhu and Orosman Garcia Arevalo, providing them with weapons, burner phones, and intelligence on Ko\u00e7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>El-Helou arranged the getaway car. He arranged the airport pickup of the assassins in a Rolls-Royce limo, which brought them to where he waited. Payment was in cryptocurrency. The hit was carried out the next day. Initially Gurtaj Singh Sandher was pegged as one of the gunmen. Hitman Orosman Garcia Aravela was a friend of Gurtaj Sandher. Sandher was replaced by senior Brothers Keeper gangster Harpreet Majhu because he had not yet proven himself to the Sinaloa Cartel. He remedied that on Oct. 11, 2018 with the Surrey hit of Sumeet Singh Randhawa. <a href=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=9783\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjIfbQ2S3-9P1GwNIjM_PC_p0VHFxf3KXvgt8hMzLXYjkeNWuHhLCX8bly4Hidz2nht98ltvoPckrHpsHcilarVcUWqV7xcQvCkmHEktPwxAgveprSbSob8KQmbEijNfWiL49OQ2ueB1DMb174L3SqIHJjE5s0FmMt1V0LhR0hschNmfQiEb6cTI-4de6M=w368-h277\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\"  \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh6tAsot7OCHXJoVMlsOHK8q5abssFUilKjtPUo4F5pIQoFTz_JV8nZb6qwaEyDyp2F_c04OflWyjmKfHL-0omHhEAXDqQ2x8PkAzXOAe_yi-kM97QQjpujdgPHKDERJyVwgzFRHjYgE7ihfotngtnI-1NOyaGomd8G9WJsvTTgeaMrGLQ7TxT6FWp9Shw=w400-h266\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>On May 11, 2016, a week after Ko\u00e7&#8217;s murder, a farmer found the body of Orosman Garcia Aravela. Harpreet Majhu\u2019s remains were found in a burnt out car in Agassiz on June 10, 2016. The killers were silenced to squelch their acquired knowledge. All their ties led to Sami El-Helou. The Brothers Keepers gangsters were ultimately hired by Naji Sharifi Zindashti.<\/p>\n<table><Tr><\/p>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiEcLXyhK0GklUgUOAWiKmXRxzIWphsoe0Aq1J1Pg6kaMEzz6ebp-06RkyJF_cPAAGSLb5gb0p8E4eqM5z7doWePbDUcq0RKGO_W6JlsDevBPJ6pLGJ0Pz59tvrP5ZJHgO2NFBhCRUONsK_rSWb7ie-wIVvSZ7zje9WPMteNeJrbDheLl5cYmj_Q_4qDs8\/w271-h345\/harpreet-majhus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEivOeXo8E1Gyvj7ILHQVoQS1Wm_f_B5Q-5NHSG8g0MEkaAykDvAptwih5yE1c2plCSdvH51K4-ZILQHrnwErJtngQ6ZPugSOAMI9h8CT-XpFBrE15ifJPzRE0Us7P6vWU5rpSIIn4v7eTlZresLRCwjnYkdh8B-RWDrWFsq9KjWnXtKwPcXMLI9ACCPG3E\/w260-h303\/_132497524_zindashti.png\" width=\"260\" height=\"303\" \/><\/td>\n<p><\/tR><\/table>\n<p>There were rumours key Sandher operative Sami El-Helou would be indicted in the U.S., along with Gurtaj Singh Sandher. Sandher was pulled in for questioning after the U.S. reopened the investigation into the hit of Cetin Ko\u00e7. Information flowed after Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez delivered Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael Zambada Garc\u00eda &#8216;El Mayo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<table><Tr><\/p>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiVWZkgGFa0giqur0CacV11SDeqZT0mlUJcZ4Eq8fp1iF9JUfLLLyUxuiM000xEPWYKIf87ehrvcif-zjPeIROhdHU0twedVuxJicFmzWD3OyNDGdbVNQAsHPBYclEqkRX3101Z8dL-Y9S0vVVXyvZu5OQ0w9qMYBvlO1fAfNlIM-FIdToQridEy9yc3so\/w250-h385\/Gurtaj%20Singh%20Sandher.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"692\" data-original-width=\"448\" \/><\/td>\n<p><Td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sami-el-helou.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300 class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sami-el-helou.webp 500w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sami-el-helou-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sami-el-helou-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>Sami El-Helou<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Zindashti leads &#8220;a network of individuals that targeted Iranian dissidents and opposition activists for assassination at the direction of the Iranian regime.&#8221; Zindashti organizes killings on behalf of Iran. He is involved in drug and human trafficking and has deep connections to the Islamic Republic&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards. (IRGC) Zindashti escaped from an Iranian prison and fled to Turkey, where he established a cartel. Zindashti returned to Iran where he leads an opulent, free life. He has worked for Iranian intelligence in various plots. Zindashti&#8217;s network is &#8216;The Friends&#8217; Club&#8217;, and includes senior IRGC officials, members of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, managers from Tehran Municipality, and members of parliament.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"357\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09YpOtXnWaA\" title=\"Naji Sharifi Zindashti\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nZindashti attended his mother\u2019s funeral in Northern Iran in September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2014 cops in Turkey confiscated two tons of heroin belonging to brothers Orhan and \u0130lhan Ungan and \u00c7etin Ko\u00e7. Drug kingpin Naji Sherifi Zindashti had ratted out his main competition in the heroin trade. Later that year 2 people were gunned down in a jeep belonging to Zindashti. The hitmen killed Zindashti&#8217;s daughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[309,61,308,14],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cetin-koc","tag-gurtaj-sandher","tag-naji-sherifi-zindashti","tag-sami-el-helou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}