The investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Bureau for Investigating Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering Crimes into transactions carried out in the capital markets is ongoing.
The police procedures for Tera Portföy CEO Emir Münir Sarpyener, Tera Portföy Chair of the Board Erdin Özel, Fatmagül Lafçı, Bolkan Bekçi, Hasan Dörtkardeş and İbrahim Halil Rat, who were detained as part of the investigation, have been completed at the Financial Crimes Investigation Branch of the Istanbul Police Department.
The six suspects underwent medical checks before being referred to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan.
Scope of the investigation
In a letter sent to the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) on Sept. 17, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office requested financial data concerning the executives of Pusula Finans Holding AŞ, Tera Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, Hedef Holding AŞ and Bulls Yatırım Menkul Değerler AŞ, as well as the subsidiaries of these companies.
The letter requested that the executives’ full identity details be established and that raw data on money and crypto-asset transfers abroad, as well as all money inflows and outflows, from 2024 to the present be sent to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
Previous proceedings
As part of the investigation, Tera Yatırım Holding Chair 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 Chair of the Board Serdar Turhan, Pusula Portföy Yönetimi AŞ Chair of the Board Muhammed Yarız, Namık Kemal Gökalp, Altunç Kumova and İbrahim Bekçi were arrested.
Enver Çevik and Kemal Akkaya, who had been detained, were released after giving statements to the prosecutor’s office. Doğa Sigorta Chair of the Board Nihat Kırmızı and Tera Yatırım Board members Bülent Uygun and Abdulkadir Özkan were arrested after being referred to the courthouse.
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, who had been referred to the courthouse, were ordered arrested. Judicial control measures were imposed on three suspects.
Of the 19 suspects referred to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan, 17 were arrested and two were released subject to judicial control. At later stages, eight more suspects were detained, and arrest warrants were issued for six of them.
In another group of proceedings, five suspects were arrested and judicial control measures were imposed on seven suspects. This brought the number of people arrested as part of the investigation to 56.
Tera Yatırım CEO Emir Münir Sarpyener and Tera Portföy Chair of the Board Erdin Özel, who had previously been subject to travel bans and were wanted under arrest warrants, were also detained as part of the investigation.
