Turkish drug lord's villas to be auctioned in Belgium

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00:00When two villas in the small Belgian town of Kaplan opened to visitors for three days

00:05ahead of a public sale, locals could hardly contain their curiosity on the revelation

00:10of who their last owners were.

00:13I always thought it was from a Turkish consul or ambassador years ago, because I passed

00:23here at the time, but I never knew it was mafia.

00:28Seized last year in connection with the narcotics case, the houses were owned by members of

00:33the Turkish mafia.

00:34One is valued at 680,000 euros, with its sauna and outside swimming pool, but seemingly its

00:41glory days are over, or at least on pause.

00:46Here we are in the main entrance hall of the villa.

00:49There's no lighting, so you can imagine that it's normally very bright.

00:53The ceilings are gilded.

00:57Some national media report that the owners are now either in prison or were killed in

01:01unsettling circumstances.

01:03But it's not just the specter of the past that's raising visitors' eyebrows.

01:07Some find the opulence vulgar.

01:10It seems like too much.

01:12Too much.

01:13There's too much of everything.

01:16The two properties on their 15,000 square metres of land will be up for sale on the

01:2019th of November.

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