Bayrock’s Arif Detained in Turkish Vice Raid on Yacht

New York-based property developer Tevfik Arif is being questioned by Turkish police as a suspected organizer of an international ring of high-price prostitutes, after he was arrested this week in a helicopter raid on a luxury yacht, a Turkish official said.

Arif, who is of Kazakh origin, is being held at police headquarters in Belek, near the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, and questioned in relation to the prostitution scandal, said Mahmut Deniz, head of press and public relations at the Antalya governor’s office. He said there’s been no decision on whether to press charges.