türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Milliyet Newspaper, 2 March 2019)
Whatever happened to the simple life of the numbers racket?
In an operation centered in Ankara but including 13 provinces, police
raided a gang involved in illegal gambling over the internet. 21 people
were taken into custody, including M.G. who is the host of a TV
program (!). The suspects communicated with encrypted phones and
enciphered communications programs and reaped $340 million per
year from their betting websites.
A total of 105,995,000 TL (about $20 million) worth of property was
seized from the gang leaders. M.G., who hosts a economy program on
TV, was also the 'treasury director' for one of the companies in the
gang's network. The money the gang collected was funneled to the bank
accounts of friendly third parties. Then, the gang's soldiers would
withdraw the money from ATMs through a cellphone app, rather than
with a card and deliver the money to the gang leaders.
The collected money was sent in armored cars to Istanbul, where it
was converted to gold, foreign currency and Bitcoins via companies
the gang made arrangements with. After these conversions, the loot
was sent to shell companies in England, Bulgaria, Lithuania and
Malta.
Gang leader A.U. directs more than 100 illegal internet betting sites
and gets commissions from them. A.U. also set up a company for
crypto-money transfers and this company has tried to become a
sponsor for a sports club in Turkey. A.U is a British citizen and
goes by the name 'Steve' (!).
No, couldn't be...
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