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Five suspects jailed and seven placed under judicial control in capital markets probe
Five of the 12 suspects referred to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan as part of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office investigation into capital markets transactions were jailed. The other seven suspects were placed under judicial control, bringing the number jailed in earlier stages of the investigation to 51.
The investigation by the Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering Crimes Investigation Bureau of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into transactions carried out in the capital markets is ongoing.
Following their detention, the 12 suspects referred to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan gave statements to the prosecutor. The criminal judgeship of peace ordered the detention of Necmettin Enes Töbü, Kerem Lafçı, Cem Gürkan Alpay, Engin Geylan and Yunus Caf.
The other seven suspects were placed under judicial control. Because there was a discrepancy between the referral information in the investigation file and the judgeship’s decisions regarding the distribution of the suspects, their names were not listed individually.
Scope of the investigation
In a letter sent to the Financial Crimes Investigation Board on September 17, the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requested financial data on the executives of Pusula Finans Holding AŞ, Tera Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, Hedef Holding AŞ and Bulls Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, as well as their subsidiaries.
The letter requested that the executives’ full identity details be established and that raw data on money and crypto-asset transfers abroad from 2024 onward, as well as all money inflows and outflows, be sent to the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Earlier detentions
In earlier stages of the investigation, 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 of the Board Serdar Turhan and Pusula Portföy Yönetimi AŞ Chairman of the Board Muhammed Yarız were jailed.
Detention orders were also issued for Namık Kemal Gökalp, Altunç Kumova and İbrahim Bekçi. Enver Çevik and Kemal Akkaya, who had been detained, were released after giving statements to the prosecutor.
Doğa Sigorta Chairman of the Board Nihat Kırmızı and Tera Yatırım Board members Bülent Uygun and Abdulkadir Özkan were also jailed after being referred to the courthouse.
Detention orders were issued for 14 suspects previously referred to the courthouse, while three suspects were placed under judicial control. At another stage, 19 suspects were ordered jailed, while two suspects were released under judicial control.
In the ongoing investigation, eight more suspects were detained, six of whom were jailed. This brought the number of people jailed as part of the investigation to 51.
Arrest procedures were carried out for 11 suspects, including Tera Portföy CEO Emir Münir Sarpyener and Tera Portföy Chairman of the Board Erdin Özel, for whom an arrest warrant had been issued.
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