A California biotech tycoon has been found guilty of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill a father of six and former business partner after their oil deal collapsed.
Serhat Gumrukcu, 42, of Los Angeles, faces a mandatory life sentence for the 2018 abduction and killing of Gregory Davis, who was taken from his Vermont home and found shot dead at the base of a snowbank, according to the US Attorney’s Office .
Gumrukcu, the founder of Enochian Biosciences, was found guilty of hatching the deadly plot after Davis — a father of six whose wife was pregnant with their seventh child — threatened to sue him over a soured oil deal. 4
Prosecutors said the biotech tycoon recruited his friend, Berk Eratay, 38, who then used a second intermediary, Aron Ethridge, 45, to hire hitman Jerr