Seçil Erzan decision from the court

The retrial process of Seçil Erzan, who allegedly defrauded famous people out of millions of dollars by creating fictitious funds and was sentenced to 102 years in prison, continues.

Arrested defendant Seçil Erzan attended the hearing at the Istanbul 29th High Criminal Court via SEGBİS. Some undetained defendants and party lawyers were also present at the hearing.

Speaking at the hearing, Erzan made evaluations about the statements of the participants and said, "Nobody is telling the truth except for the receivable amounts. They say we have receivables from the bank because they want to get interest from the bank." expressed his claim.

Arguing that she was sacrificed in the incident, Seçil Erzan said the following at the hearing:

"- If I had been cheating, I would have victimized my bank. I did not corrupt anyone's will, I did not take anyone's money into my pocket. What fraudster would defraud without taking a penny into his pocket? My mother needs me, I demand my release."

Erzan was asked to be imprisoned from 109 to 358 years on charges of "forgery of private documents" and "qualified fraud of cooperative managers within the scope of the cooperative's activities during the commercial activities of persons who are traders or company managers or acting on behalf of the company".

At the end of the 2-year trial, Seçil Erzan was sentenced to 102 years and 4 months in prison and a judicial fine of 767 thousand 240 TL.

Seçil Erzan was sentenced for her actions against 41 people. He was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months for allegedly defrauding Arda Turan. Emre Belözoğlu was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months, and Muslera was sentenced to 3 years and 7 months.

The 10-month sentence Erzan received for the fraud against Fatih Terim was postponed.

The trial prosecutor had requested acquittal at the previous hearing for former Denizbank executives Hakan Ateş and Mehmet Aydoğdu, who were tried together with Seçil Erzan. Hakan Ateş and Mehmet Aydoğdu were acquitted.

In the decision, the committee also decided to postpone the announcement of the sentence of 1 year, 10 months and 15 days in prison for the crime of "forgery of private documents" and ruled that Erzan be subject to probation for 5 years for this crime.