Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office detained 20 suspects related to capital market transactions and completed their statements.

The procedures at the police station for 20 suspects who were detained by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Terrorism Financing and Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau within the scope of investigations regarding transactions carried out in the capital market have been completed.

After the health check, the suspects were brought to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan.

The names of the 20 suspects referred are as follows:

"Ali Serhat Tüzün, Ali Yöney, Alper Tunga Sagu Burak, Burak Sevindik, Fırat Kerim Ersoy, Gökhan Koçyiğit, Gürsel Akça, İdris Çakır, Jeremy Etienne Debost, Tahir Fatih Mutlu, Mücahit Acaralp, Nil Özalp, Tuncer Köklü, Yasemin Yavuz Koçyiğit, Ali Göl, Hüseyin Emre Güner, İhsan Çimen, Mesut Yalım, Osman Sungur and Erol Demirbaş"

All of the suspects, whose statements at the prosecutor's office were completed, were referred to the criminal judgeship of peace with a request for arrest.

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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 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 Chairman Nihat Kırmızı, Tera Yatırım Board members Bülent Uygun and Abdulkadir Özkan were also arrested.

As the investigation continued, it was decided to arrest 53 more suspects, including Tera Investment Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Emir Münir Sarpyener and Tera Portfolio Chairman Erdin Özel.

Thus, the number of people arrested in the investigation reached 65.