NEWS CENTER - The 5th wave operation was carried out in the fund investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau. Stating that the values in the confiscated villas, luxury vehicles, lands and bank accounts will be transferred to a special pool established within the SDIF, Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek said, "The trace of the ill-gotten gain will be traced to the end."
THE CONFUSED THOSE WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SPECIAL POOL ESTABLISHED WITHIN THE TMSF.
A new era has begun in the investigations concerning approximately 500 thousand victims, closely followed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Minister Gürlek stated that the values in the confiscated villas, luxury vehicles, lands and bank accounts will be transferred to the special pool established within the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) in order to eliminate the grievances, and announced that manipulative transactions worth billions of lira were detected in 41 stocks in Borsa Istanbul.
All economic values seized in the investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office will provide resources for the system created for the victims. Villas, luxury cars, real estate and money in bank accounts belonging to the suspects will be collected in the pool within the SDIF. After the legal processes are completed, this wealth will be used directly to eliminate grievances.
PRIORITY TO ACCOUNTS WITH 1 MILLION TL AND BELOW
In payments to be made from the pool, priority will be given to account holders with 1 million TL or less in their fund accounts. This figure is not a payment ceiling, but will serve as the main priority criterion that determines the payment order among victims. Thus, the first step in the process will be to quickly eliminate the grievances of small investors.
In the stock market part of the giant investigation, unusual movements in 41 stocks were scrutinized. Stating that millions of transactions have been scanned with artificial intelligence-supported analysis systems, Minister Gürlek said, "Those who try to make unfair profits from our citizens' savings by manipulating the markets should know that their unfair gains will be traced to the end." As a result of the investigations, people who were found to benefit from manipulation were banned from traveling abroad.
TWICE THE BENEFIT IS TO THE SDIF ACCOUNT
Efforts are being made to ensure that the suspects who will be called for questioning deposit twice the amount of money they received from manipulative transactions into the SDIF account. While these payments will be decisive in the legal status of the suspects, the resulting resources will also be transferred to the victims.
THEY WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE THE LAW
Minister Gürlek said, "In line with the strong will demonstrated by our President, we will continue to do our part with determination to protect the rights of our investor citizens, strengthen the trust in our capital markets and ensure that those responsible are held accountable before the law."
INVESTIGATION
In the memorandum sent by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to MASAK on September 17, it was requested to provide financial data regarding the managers of Pusula Finans Holding AŞ, Tera Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, Hedef Holding AŞ and Bulls Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ and their subsidiaries. In the memorandum, it was requested that the clear identity information of all managers of the companies be determined, and that their money and crypto asset transfers abroad from 2024 until today, as well as all their money inflows and outflows, be sent to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office as raw data.
In the investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, Terrorism Financing and Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau, Tera Yatırım Holding Chairman of the Board 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 were arrested. Enver Çevik and Kemal Akkaya, who were detained, were released after their statements at the prosecutor's office.
Doğa Sigorta Board Chairman Nihat Kırmızı, Tera Yatırım Board Members Bülent Uygun and Abdulkadir Özkan, who were detained within the scope of the investigation, were also referred to the courthouse and arrested. It was decided to arrest the suspects Furkan Baki, Murat Keçeci, Ramazan Erbey, İlhan Aygül, Salih Can Bülbül, Selçuk Kahya, Uğur Akkafa, Samet Çetinel, Celal Yarız, İsmail Ege, Mehmet Yıldırım, Lütfi Çetinel, Berkan Gülen and Mehmet Erbey, and to impose judicial control measures on 3 suspects.
