Lazım Esmaeili (also "Lazem") (1945–28 January 1996) was a

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ian drug smuggler operating in

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, who was found tortured and shot dead by unknown agents of Turkish and Iranian intelligence in

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Background

Esmaelli was born 1945 in

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(

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) in

as a son of Selim. He moved to Turkey and received a work permit from the Ministry of Interior's

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for the period between May 20, 1991, and September 20, 1992. As of September 1991, he was the partner of the Beyazıt Foreign Trade Co. in Istanbul, where he worked as director. On September 11, 1993, he received a residence permit valid for two years.

Death

On January 15, 1996, he and his partner Askar Simitko were abducted when they left the casino of Polat Renaissance Hotel in

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, Istanbul at local time 03:45 or 03:30 am. On January 28, 1996, villagers found the corpses of the two in Kerev Creek,

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, about far from Istanbul. They were tortured, ears cut and shot multiple times.

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