Presiding Judge asks 'Is it Fatih Terim?', Erzan resists: Responds by saying 'Okay'

Müslim SARIYAR/12punto.com.tr

New details have emerged in the high-interest foreign currency fund fraud case, known in the public eye as the Fatih Terim Fund. In the transcribed SEGBİS records, Erzan claimed that everything began after 2020 and said the following:

Presiding Judge: After the year 2020.

Seçil Erzan: After 2020, someone who wanted to multiply their money with an off-the-books gain handed their money to me again.

Presiding Judge: In 2011. When you were in Florya, yes.

Seçil Erzan: When I was in Florya, there were no problems; I had no debts to anyone until 2020. It was going somehow. I was keeping my word. I had multiplied the money of a few people, but I had given them extra on top. Then, in 2020, someone who knew me and trusted me handed me money to multiply—not under the name of a fund, but they told me, 'Do whatever you want with it.'

Presiding Judge: Who is this person?

Seçil Erzan: Someone from the Galatasaray community.

Presiding Judge: Yes. Who?

Seçil Erzan: Can I make a statement later?

Presiding Judge: Do you not want to say the name?

Seçil Erzan’s lawyer Nazlı Nadide Karaaslan: We will provide a written statement, your honor.

Presiding Judge: Okay.

Seçil Erzan: Their...

Presiding Judge: They handed over their money in 2020, yes.

Seçil Erzan: Yes. At that time, they left the club, and in the meantime, I was paying them money in some way whenever they wanted, so they could continue their normal life and make their payments; I couldn't say no whenever they asked.

Presiding Judge: So they actually gave you a certain amount of money, handed it over in person.

Seçil Erzan: Yes, in person, yes.

Presiding Judge: And whenever they needed money from their funds, they asked you, and you sent them the amount they needed from that money.

Seçil Erzan: Yes, but I was also investing that money in the meantime; I had bought and sold gold, but the money they wanted started to become much, much, much more than the money they gave me, and I couldn't say no there.

Presiding Judge: So there was a constant flow of money in and out for this person, right?

Seçil Erzan: No, it happened once, and it wasn't a very large amount; it was something like 300 thousand dollars.

Presiding Judge: The first 300 thousand dollars they gave you.

Seçil Erzan: Yes, yes.

FATİH TERİM DIALOGUE

In the later hours of the hearing, the Public Prosecutor's question to Seçil Erzan, 'Who came to you first?', drew attention. This question led to the details of the person who brought money from the Galatasaray community in 2020. That dialogue where Fatih Terim's name came up...

Presiding Judge: Go ahead, Mr. Prosecutor.

Public Prosecutor: Now, Mr. President, I will return to the question I asked myself, following the questions from the lawyers, because you said, 'This one referred to that one, that one came with that one's reference.' Who came to you first? I mean, I won't list the complainants one by one here. Was it Burhan Taşpolat, Buse Terim Bahçekapılı, Terim Arıcan, Bülent Çeviker, or who?

Seçil Erzan: I had told the Prosecutor that it was the first one; I had said, 'I will disclose the name,' and I had mentioned a 300 thousand dollar amount at that time.

Public Prosecutor: Let me ask this; is that person among the complainants?

Seçil Erzan: No.

Public Prosecutor: Because the lawyer asked, and you said 'No,' that's why.

Seçil Erzan: No, they are not among the complainants.

Presiding Judge: Everyone understands now who it is, so let me ask here. Is this person you mentioned Fatih Terim?

Seçil Erzan: Everyone trusted his word, they knew. How much did it become...

Presiding Judge: So, was the person you mentioned as 300 thousand dollars Fatih Terim?

Seçil Erzan: Okay.