Mehmet Fatih Tançalan, known as Kara Haydar from Van, was put in Ankara prison as a cash detainee.

Ferit Zengin - Businessman Mehmet Fatih Tançalan, known as "Kara Haydar from Van", who came to the fore with the jewelry and money worth millions of liras he wore at his magnificent wedding with social media phenomenon Çağla Öz on September 6 in Tuşba district of Van, was arrested and imprisoned within the scope of the "money laundering" investigation initiated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office. His wife, the phenomenon Çağla Öz Tançalan, was also arrested within the scope of the same investigation.

934 million foreign currency

As part of the investigation, Ankara Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch Directorate teams found out that money was found in vehicles determined to belong to Tançalan in a parking garage in Sarıyer Maslak. The teams, who carried out an operation in the parking lot called Maslak Auto Industry Parking Lot at around 02.00 last night, found 16 million 440 thousand euros and 700 thousand dollars in foreign currency in boxes during the searches in the luggage compartments of the two vehicles they detected.

The teams seized 2 luxury cars and 64 thousand 700 foreign currency worth 934 million TL, and detained a suspect who was determined to have brought the vehicles to the parking lot and parked them and took him to Ankara.

He said 'Maslak' in his statement

In his statement to the prosecutor's office, detainee Tançalan stated that he opened a gallery named VKH Motors in the Muradiye district of Van 3-4 years ago and that he had the damaged vehicles he purchased at the industrial site in Maslak repaired. It was noteworthy that the Maslak industrial zone, where the vehicles Tançalan described in his statement, was located, coincided with the address where the money was found.

Dubai connection being investigated

In his statement, Tançalan said that he went to Dubai last year and opened a business called VKH Car Rental Dubai, got a residence permit and planned to rent a car here. However, MASAK's report dated September 9, 2026 stated that no direct fund transfer was detected from Dubai to Turkey through the financial system on behalf of Tançalan or his wife Çağla Öz Tançalan.

NO SIGNS OF PASSING FROM CUSTOMS

The report included suspicion that if it was claimed that the revenues originated from Dubai activities, the money might have been smuggled into Turkey through accounts opened in the name of third parties or outside the financial system.

Studies are continuing to determine from which country, on what date, by whom and by what method the money was brought to Turkey.

In this context, it was stated that customs and travel records were also examined, but there was no confirmed record that the money was brought to Turkey by a specific person by plane, road or any other route.

The source of millions of foreign currency is being investigated

Within the framework of the investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the source of the millions of foreign currency seized, the financial traffic on which it is based and its place in the money laundering network continue to be examined in many aspects.