Masked attackers cause terror in Antalya: Businessman forced to sign promissory note under torture

In Alanya, Russian businessman Dimitri Ivanyuk hosted his friend R.K. at his home in Alanya on August 16, 2023. During the pair's conversation, 3 masked individuals entered through the balcony door and tied Ivanyuk's hands and feet.

Ivanyuk, who was subjected to torture, was forced to sign a promissory note for 100 million liras.

Ivanyuk and R.K. applied to the gendarmerie to have the suspects caught. Two months after this incident, Ivanyuk, discovering that the creditor of the note he was forced to sign was R.K., who had been a guest in his home that day, went to the courthouse once again and filed a criminal complaint against his friend as well.

Dimitri Ivanyuk, in a statement made through an interpreter, said that his friend R.K. had come to his home as a guest on the day of the incident.

HANDS AND FEET TIED WITH TELEPHONE CORD

Claiming that R.K., who had gone out to the balcony of the 3-story villa to smoke, left the door open, Ivanyuk stated, "A while later, 3 bearded and broad-shouldered people entered through this door and threw me and R.K. to the ground. My hands and feet were tied with a telephone cord. A towel was tied around my head by the knife-wielding individuals. They demanded my phone and computer passwords under threat and asked for the location of the safe. They shoved my head into a bathtub filled with detergent water. I was beaten and subjected to torture."

Claiming that he was forced to sign a promissory note, Ivanyuk stated that after the suspects left, thanks to the help he requested from a friend, he went to the gendarmerie with R.K. and filed a complaint.

Explaining that he does not know Turkish and that R.K. helped him give his statement, Ivanyuk said, "Although I told them what I had been through in my statement to the gendarmerie, my friend, whom I trusted, did not translate the part about the forced promissory note. I learned later through my lawyer that this was not in the gendarmerie records."

100 MILLION LIRA PROMISSORY NOTE

Stating that he received a notification from the court two months after the incident and that at the court he attended with his lawyer, he learned that the note he was forced to sign that night had been put into execution for 100 million liras, Ivanyuk said, "The creditor of the note turned out to be my friend R.K., who was a guest in my home that day. While all my assets were about to be sold through foreclosure, we managed to stop the sale by applying to the court. We filed a criminal complaint against R.K. for qualified fraud."

Lawyer İsmail Alperen Küçükyaman stated that the promissory note forced upon his client had been tampered with to show a debt of 100 million liras, which is why 8 of his client's apartments were put up for sale and the sale of one villa was also requested, adding that liens had been placed on all his assets and bank accounts.

Küçükyaman stated that they had filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office regarding the matter and that the process was being closely followed by all judicial authorities, primarily the Alanya Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

It was learned that the Russian citizen R.K., against whom a criminal complaint was filed, did not accept the allegations that he had organized the incident in his statement to the police.

Stating that he became partners in 2023 with Dimitri Ivanyuk, to whom he had lent money, R.K.'s statement included the following:

'HE WROTE THE AMOUNT HIMSELF AND SIGNED IT'

-Finally, on September 19, 2023, I lent him 50 thousand dollars. Dimitri has made baseless allegations against me. Since he did not pay his debts, we decided to draw up a promissory note between us at my home.

-When we calculated it, his debt came to 100 million liras. Afterward, he went to his home. When he came to my residence around 18:00, he had already filled out part of the note. He wrote the amount himself. He wrote his name and signed it in my presence.

-He said he would pay his debt 3 days later, but he did not pay a single penny of his debt. Upon this, I put the note into process at the Alanya Enforcement Office through my lawyer. The incident of entering Dimitri's house has nothing to do with the promissory note. The allegation that I organized the incident is completely baseless.

It was reported that security forces are continuing their search for the 3 masked suspects who allegedly entered Dimitri Ivanyuk's home and committed torture.