19.01.2026 23:08
In an illegal betting operation held in Istanbul, 3 people were detained and 3 billion TL was seized from bank accounts belonging to the criminal organization.
In an illegal betting operation held in Istanbul, 3 people were detained while 3 billion TL was seized.
ILLEGAL BETTING OPERATION IN ISTANBUL
An operation was carried out as part of the illegal betting investigation conducted by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office. In line with the investigation, teams from the Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Command's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch determined that Burak Soylu, Cihan Şanlı, and Yavuz Başsav, who were found to have obtained unfair profits through illegal betting games as per the report prepared by MASAK, conducted high amounts of money transfers of unknown origin using the bank accounts of the companies they were on the board of directors.
3 BILLION TL SEIZED
It was also determined that the suspects included these transactions in the system by withdrawing cash from third-party accounts, making it difficult to trace the money with a certain organization and hierarchical structure, and laundered the assets derived from the crime. As a result of the findings, in a simultaneous operation carried out on January 18 against the mentioned criminal organization, 1 million 600 thousand TL and 13 thousand US dollars were seized. 3 billion Turkish liras in the suspects' bank accounts were confiscated. The judicial proceedings for the 3 detained suspects are ongoing.