Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, private jets and luxury vehicles were seized in the capital markets investigation

Within the scope of the capital markets investigation carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, Terrorism Financing and Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau, two private jets, Bombardier BD-700-1A11 with tail number TC-YRZ and Bombardier Learjet 60 with tail number TC-TRA, which were determined to belong to the arrested Pusula Portföy owner Muhammed Yarız and Tera Yatırım Holding Chairman Emre Tezmen, and Pusula's owner Serdar Turhan. The yacht named 'LORETA' was seized.

It was learned that the total market value of the two confiscated private jets and the yacht was approximately 1 billion 800 million liras.

UNDER 5 LUXURY CAR CENTERS

It was determined that 5 luxury vehicles belonging to Pusula Portföy Yönetimi AŞ Chairman Muhammed Yarız, who was arrested within the scope of investigations regarding transactions carried out in the capital market in Istanbul, were transferred to 4 different people with a vehicle sales price of 26 thousand 280 lira.

Investigations regarding the transactions carried out in the capital market are continuing by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, Terrorism Financing and Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau.

5 luxury vehicles belonging to Muhammed Yarız with a market value of approximately 200-220 million lira were seized. It was determined that these vehicles of different brands were transferred to 4 different people on September 7-8 for a total of 26 thousand 280 lira "vehicle sales fee". 4 of the vehicles for which confiscation measures were applied were taken into custody, and efforts are continuing to find one of them.

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.

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 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 yesterday.

It was decided to arrest 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, among the suspects who were referred to the courthouse yesterday. It was decided to impose judicial control measures on 3 suspects. Thus, the number of people arrested in the investigation reached 26.