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| Serhat Gumruckcu, co-founder of Enochian BioSciences Inc. |
Two men of a four-man conspiracy will be going to trial in the fall of 2024 for an alleged international murder-for-hire conspiracy that was tied to an oil deal, along with wire fraud.
The 2 men being charged with these crimes are Serhat Gumruckcu - Co-Founder of Enochian BioSciences Inc and Turkish Citizen - and Berk Eratay - a Turkish citizen and New Jersey resident who had been living in Las Vegan prior to his arrest.
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| Berk Eratay, Turkish Citizen |
These 2 men were previously charged with arranging to have a third man, Jerry Banks, kidnap and kill Gregory Davis, 49, of Danville Vermont.
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| Jerry Banks, of Colorado |
Jerry Banks initially pleaded as innocent, but changed his pleas to guilty in June of 2023.
The prosecuters say that Banks was part of a plot that began when Davis, the victim, threatened to go to the FBI to report that he'd been involved in a fraudelent oil deal with Gumruckcu.
The victim's corpse was found by the side of a back road in Vermont.
This whole case started with a 911 call that sent Vermont State Police on a wild goose-chase for a nonexistent man claiming to have shot his wife.
Within a couple hours of finding the corpse of Gregory Davis, investigators learned of the deal that had the New Jersey native threatening to tell the FBI about his experiences with 2 Turkish investors he felt weren't living up to their financial obligations.
Gregory Davis, who was born in Englewood New Jersey, had moved to Vermont around 3 years before his death at age 49. He leaves behind his wife, their 6 children and a house they were renting in Danville, Vermont.
Davis' demise came when, as his wife Melissa Davis described to the police, when a masked man knocked on the door of their home at 9pm on that Saturday, 1/6/2018. She describes the man as having handcuffs, a rifle and wearing a jacket which had a U.S Marshals emblem on it. Their 12 year old son told investigators that the man had drove a white, 4-door car with red and blue emergency lights on the dashboard.
This masked man told Gregory Davis that he had an arrest warrent for racketeering for him from Virginia, and left with him. His wife did not call the police.
15 minutes before the kidnapping occurred, someone called 911 from within a mile of Davis' residence to report that he had shot his wife and was going to kill himself. The caller did not provide the name of a town and police could not find a local road that matched the name given by the caller.
The next day, Gregory Davis' handcuffed body was found at the base of a snowbank in the town of Barnet, about 15 miles from his home in Danville, Vermont. He had been shot multiple times in the head and torso; investigators managed to recover several .22 caliber cartridge casings from the scene.
Melissa Davis, the victim's wife, has filed a civil suit against Gumruckcu.
After just a few hours after discovering Gregory Davis' corpse, investigators began to pin-down the oil deal as a potential reason for his kidnapping and execution.
On December 29, 2017, Gregory Davis sent a text to a middleman in the oil deal for a settlement of $980,000 to exit the deal with Gumruckcu and his brother, Murat Gumrucku.
"Therefore, as we've discussed it would be prudent to address the outstanding accounting. Have Murat and Serhat present something to speak to", Davis texted the intermediary - who has not been charged - 2 days before his death. "Let's hopefully close that matter and move forward. Without this our hands will be forced to turn this in to authorities which neither party wants".
The charges against Gumruckcu, Eratay and Banks carry a potential death sentence or life in prison, but it isn't likely that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty in this case, according to attorneys with the case.
Gumruckcu's Vermont Attorney, David Kirby, has declined to comment in regards to an AP request.
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| (((David Kirby))), attorney for Gumruckcu |
In a response by prosecutors opposing Eratay's release, prosecutors said that his bank records reveals over $250,000 in wire transfers from a Turkish bank to 2 accounts he controlled between June and October of 2017. Eratay withdrey the money as cash in daily increments of $9,000, just below the $10,000 currency reporting requirement.
Furthermore, Eratay's Google data - which was obtained by a search warrant - shows that he documented personal information about Gregory Davis in July of 2017, including his full name, date of birth, place of birth and cell phone number with a Vermont area code.
Serhat Gumruckcu is a native of Turkey who immigrated to the U.S in 2013 and became a permenant resident a year later.
Gumruckcu co-founded Enochian BioSciences, which describes itself as a "pre-clinical biotechnology company committed to using 'innovative gene and immune therapy interventions that provide hope for cures or life-long remissions for devestating diseases'". But the start of his threatening of Gregory Davis had started the year prior in 2017.
In the meantime, Mr Gumruckcu was also facing several felony charges in the Californian State court, involving housing investment fraud and bounced checks that had been provided to the man who worked to facilitate the oil deal with Gregory Davis.
The court filing said that Gumrucku owned a significant ownership in Enochian BioSciences - amounting to $100,000,000 - and had generated $2,000,000 in cash from an Enochian stock sale a week before his arrest.
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