New step in fund investigation: Assets of 46 legal entities and 42 real persons were frozen

The investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the transactions carried out in the capital markets continues.

Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek made a new post regarding the fund investigation carried out within the scope of crimes of laundering assets resulting from crime and violating the Capital Markets Law.

Minister Gürlek stated that the priority in the fund investigation is to protect the rights of citizens, not to allow their savings to be exploited, and to ensure that the grievances they have suffered are remedied within the framework of the conditions stipulated by the law, and included the following statements in his post;

"In the investigation carried out by the Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau of our Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office within the scope of the crimes of "establishing and becoming a member of an organization for the purpose of committing a crime", "qualified fraud", "laundering of assets resulting from crime" and "opposition to the capital market law", efforts are continuing to reveal all aspects of money movements.

In this context, a new step has been taken today; Money outflows from the funds between 1 July and 16 August were examined, starting from the highest amount, and the assets of 46 legal entities, 18 funds and 42 real persons were frozen; Judicial control measures in the form of travel bans were imposed on 37 suspects, for whom no precautions had been taken before.

In this context; Preventing transfer, assignment, sale, donation, mortgage and lien establishment, account closure, high amount cash withdrawal, EFT/transfer and other transactions that reduce assets; Memorandums have been written to all relevant institutions and organizations to freeze capital market instruments and to report suspicious transactions to the judicial authorities without delay.

Our aim is clear: To prevent the asset values subject to investigation from being smuggled, changed hands or transferred to third parties; to secure the values determined to have been obtained from crime and to ensure that our victimized citizens regain their rights.

Regardless of which account the money was transferred to or which company or person the assets were transferred to; We will follow your trail to the end. We will never allow the savings accumulated over the years by our well-intentioned citizens to be exploited by some individuals and structures.

"We will reveal illegal transactions and their connections, and we will resolutely implement all necessary legal measures to protect the rights of our victimized citizens within the framework of the conditions stipulated by the law."

HOW DID THE INVESTIGATION START?

With the decision taken on September 17, the Capital Markets Board closed the funds of 7 portfolio management companies traded in TEFAS for trading and took a total of 131 investment funds into liquidation process.

During the same period, CMB filed a criminal complaint against 38 people for allegedly manipulative transactions in some company shares and decided to ban these people from trading.

The investigation expanded on September 22. In simultaneous operations held in Istanbul and Aydın, 14 of the 15 suspects for whom an arrest warrant was issued were caught and detained. It was determined that one suspect was abroad. It was also reported that the money and asset movements of managers and officials of nine companies linked to the investigation were frozen.

TOTAL NUMBER OF DETAINED

As of Saturday morning, September 26, the total number of detainees within the scope of the investigation increased to 51.

As part of the investigation, Pusula Portföy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Muhammet Yarız, was arrested on September 15.

In the deepened investigation, Tera Yatırım Holding Chairman Emre Tezmen, Tera Yatırım Holding Board Member Emre Alkin, Tera Yatırım Independent Board Member Kerem Alkin, Tera Portföy General Manager Alper Öztürk, Pusula Holding Chairman Serdar Turhan, Pusula Portföy Yönetimi AŞ Chairman Muhammed Yarız, Namık Kemal Gökalp, Altunç Kumova and İbrahim Bekçi are among the detainees.