04.06.2026 09:42
In the operation in Diyarbakır targeting the laundering of proceeds from drug trafficking, legal actions were taken against 18 suspects. Assets including a hotel, land, apartments, vehicles, and bank accounts with a market value of approximately 15 billion TL were seized.
In an operation targeting the laundering of proceeds from drug trafficking in Diyarbakır, actions have been taken against 18 suspects. The suspects' hotel, land, field, apartments, workplace, vehicles, and bank accounts with an estimated market value of approximately 15 billion TL were seized. Under the coordination of the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, a study was conducted by the Terror Financing and Money Laundering Crimes Bureau and Provincial Gendarmerie Command teams regarding the manufacturing and trafficking of narcotics or stimulants and the laundering of crime proceeds. Following technical and physical surveillance lasting about 8 months, an investigation was launched against the suspects who were considered to have laundered their revenues from drug trafficking through various methods.
128 BANK ACCOUNTS WERE SEIZED
Within the scope of the studies, 5 separate investigation files were opened against 18 suspects, who were considered to have acquired assets with revenues obtained from the crimes of 'Manufacturing and trading narcotics or stimulants or supplying' and 'Violation of Law No. 2313', on the charge of 'Laundering assets derived from crime'. During the operation organized by gendarmerie teams, legal actions were taken against 18 suspects, and a large amount of narcotics were seized. Within the scope of the operation, a 4-star hotel in the Çeşme district of Izmir, 3 private public buses and their routes, 2 taxis and their routes, a total of 109 plots and fields covering 970 decares in Diyarbakır, a 9-decare plot in Çeşme, 7 vehicles, 33 apartments, 4 workplaces, and 128 bank accounts were seized. It was reported that the total market value of the seized assets is approximately 15 billion TL.