Cyber crime operation in 11 provinces: 86 arrests

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that 86 of the 120 suspects caught in operations carried out by the General Directorate of Security teams in 11 provinces within the scope of the fight against cybercrime were arrested.

According to the statement made by the Ministry, operations were carried out in 11 provinces in 5 days, under the coordination of the General Directorate of Security's Cyber ​​Crimes Department, the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) and the chief public prosecutor's offices, against the crimes of "qualified fraud, illegal betting, online child obscenity and harassment, and laundering of assets resulting from crime".

120 suspects were detained in operations carried out in Adana, Ankara, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Giresun, Hakkari, Istanbul, Kocaeli, Muğla, Samsun and Trabzon.

86 of the captured suspects were arrested by the criminal judgeships of peace, and judicial control provisions were applied to 25 of them. The proceedings against the other suspects are continuing.

It was determined that the suspects were engaging in illegal betting and gambling, advertising illegal betting and gambling sites, gaining unauthorized access to citizens' mobile banking and gaming accounts, and possessing obscene images of children.

The teams seized 23 companies and their accounts, movable assets worth approximately 1 million 500 thousand lira and a large number of digital materials.

Within the scope of artificial intelligence-supported cyber open source monitoring and control activities, 1164 accounts or individuals were identified for illegal arms sales and display, organized crime organizations, drugs, obscenity and cyber traffic crimes, and 642 accounts or individuals were identified for terrorist organizations.

As a result of studies on criminal content on social media platforms and websites, 4 thousand 406 accounts or individuals were identified, and a decision was taken to block access or remove the content for 1 thousand 16 URL addresses.