Requested sentence for influencer Talu couple revealed: 3 million lira fraud

The indictment prepared as part of the investigation conducted by the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor's Office stated that the Talu couple and Erkan Koç established a company under the name "Var Böyle Tipler Organizasyon Nakliye Bilişim Hizmetleri".

It was determined that they carried out advertising organizations through this company and promised to distribute the income they would obtain from these advertising organizations to the people who invested money in the system.

13 PEOPLE BECAME VICTIMS

In the prepared indictment, the Kıvanç-Beril Talu couple and Ertan Koç were included as suspects, while 13 people were included as complainants. The couple gained people's sympathy and trust by making many broadcasts through their social media channel, and promised the complainants that they were carrying out advertising organizations through their advertising company.

It was noted that they paid the money of the complainants who first entered the Ponzi system with the money received from those who joined the system later, and in this way, the complainants who thought they were partners in the advertising activity included other complainants in the system at the request of the defendants.

The indictment stated that the defendants needed money for this organization, deceived those who gave money to the mentioned advertising activities by promising to make them partners in the advertising business and to distribute the income from the advertisements in proportion to their shares, and created a Ponzi scheme (pyramid scheme) by taking money from the complainants without any actual advertising activity.

THEY TRIED TO FLEE

Within the scope of the investigation, where it was determined that many victims lost their money to the couple, the couple, who came to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport from Georgia, were detained and arrested on January 5, 2024.

In his statement regarding the incident, Kıvanç Talu claimed that they did not deceive anyone, that they stood behind their debts, that they fled abroad because of threats from people they received payments from, and that they sold their phones because they needed money abroad.

THEY DID NOT ACCEPT THE ACCUSATIONS

In his statement, detained defendant Kıvanç Talu noted that he had ongoing work during and before the period he took over the Var Böyle Tipler Reklam Organizasyon Reklam Ltd. company, that they completed some of these jobs but needed capital for the unfinished projects, and therefore they had to borrow money from friends and those doing similar work in the sector.

In her statement included in the indictment, detained defendant Beril Talu claimed that she had been working at a communications and marketing solutions company for 10 years, that they demanded she pay for unbilled costs to the company due to the projects she was involved in, that she was forced to resign for this reason, and that she started looking for money to pay her debt to the company.

News Source: 12punto