Seçil Erzan's bank footage emerges: This is how they stuffed the money into the bag

New details have emerged in the high-interest foreign currency fund case, publicly known as the Fatih Terim Fund.

In the WhatsApp correspondence between the detained defendant of the case heard at the Istanbul 41st High Criminal Court, Seçil Erzan, and the complainant Arda Turan, the problems experienced by Turan, who wanted to retrieve his money, and the defendant Erzan's attempts to stall him were revealed.

"I PUT NEARLY 15 MILLION IN CASH INTO IT"

According to the correspondence, in response to Turan's message, "I am in a state of panic at home, my request from you is that there should be no shortcomings tomorrow. Everyone has messaged for payment on Monday," the defendant Erzan replied, "Really, stay calm; I must stand firm at the head of the business to solve it. When you panic, I start to panic too." Turan replied by stating that he had been experiencing similar problems for 40 days.

Upon the defendant's words in the correspondence, "No, no, you are not panicking for the money, you misunderstood me, I am holding it for yours, I cannot talk here," Turan stated, "Let it wait, Seçil, I have no money left, not even 5 cents. How much will come out tomorrow? I put nearly 15 million in cash into it, you took it out. I have 35 thousand dollars left, I took out a loan. I have no money, Seçil, are you aware? It feels like I'm joking."

"I AM ABOUT TO HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN"

As the correspondence continued, while the defendant told Turan from March 7th to April with various statements that "you will get your money," Turan replied on March 24th, "I barely got 1 million in 2 months and there is still the deficit there, this, that. I am getting tired. You are saying something that makes me not sleep at all. I haven't had a day of relief for 3-4 months. But I am disgusted with myself for thinking and talking about this money every day. Please, I beg you, help me."

Turan, who could not get his money, later wrote to the defendant, "You left neither Ramadan, nor fasting, nor worship. You are making a man have a nervous breakdown. I ask how much will come out, there is no answer to that either. It is not clear what it is, what we are doing. I get up and lie to Emre and Muslera. I got sick. I am about to have a nervous breakdown now."

In another exchange, while Turan forwarded a screenshot of a message sent to him by complainant Emre Çolak, "Brother, good morning, is the money being deposited today?" to the defendant, defendant Erzan stated that she was doing everything she could, that she had no strength left to endure, and that no one could bear this burden.

THEY STUFFED THE MONEY INTO THE BAG

On the other hand, some security camera recordings belonging to the bank have also entered the case file. The footage shows the detained defendant Ali Yörük allegedly delivering money from a bag he brought with him, which he had received from some complainants, to the bank. Furthermore, security cameras recorded defendant Seçil Erzan and two people with her putting money on the table into a bag on September 27 and December 2, 2022.

BEING TRIED FOR VARIOUS CRIMES

The indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office notes that defendant Seçil Erzan worked as a manager at a bank's Levent branch and told complainant Bülent Çeviker that she would return the 2 million dollars she took from him based on a personal relationship of trust with a high profit promise.

The indictment states that written documents were given to Çeviker in exchange for money, but later Çeviker could not reach Erzan, the bank he informed about the situation conducted an investigation, and filed a criminal complaint against Erzan.

The indictment explains that defendant Erzan convinced complainants from various professional groups, including footballers and business people, to invest money in this fund by telling them that there was a reliable fund with high profit returns and that well-known figures such as Fatih Terim and Hakan Ateş were also involved in this fund, and it is stated that it was determined that no such fund actually existed.

The indictment records that Erzan created fake documents regarding the money given by the complainants, stamped these documents with the bank's seal, signed them with a wet signature, delivered them to the complainants, and acted with the intent to defraud.

226 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT REQUESTED

In the indictment, which requests a prison sentence of 69 to 226 years for the detained defendant Erzan for the crimes of "forgery of private documents" and "qualified fraud by persons who are merchants or company managers or acting on behalf of a company, during their commercial activities, or by cooperative managers within the scope of the cooperative's activities," it is requested that defendants Ali Yörük, Kerem Can, Hüseyin Eligül, Nazlı Can, Atilla Yörük, and Asiye Öztürk be sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3 to 65 years for the same crimes.

Following the acceptance of the indictment by the Istanbul 41st High Criminal Court, 7 defendants, 4 of whom were detained, appeared before the judge on November 20. The court panel decided to release 2 of the detained defendants and adjourned the hearing to January 12, 2024.

News Source : AA