28 Nisan 2023 Cuma

"Beat & Release": Another Case Where "I Don't Speak Turkish" Would Have Forestalled Fraud, in Bursa

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 28 April 2023)














             When they call, forget your native language.

In Bursa's Nilüfer district, Prof. Dr. Ahmet T. (77), who lives alone, 
received a phone call last year from someone identifying himself as
"MIT officer Levent Akçay" (MIT is the Turkish National Intelligence
Organization) who told the professor "there are moles inside the banks
and we need you to help us catch them."  (!)

In response, Prof. Ahmet T. put 1,979 pieces of gold in a bag and gave
the bag to a person at a local children's park, as instructed.  The suspects
contacted Prof. Ahmet T. again and told him not to go to the police. In
addition, they instructed him to withdraw 400,000 Euros from his bank
account and bring it to them.   However, the professor's siblings came to
his home, read the related messages on his WhatsApp phone system
while Prof. Ahmet T. was sleeping and called the police. 

Subsequently, police arrested Ahmet Laçin (38), Mehmet Emin Kırboğa
(34), Mehmet Sinan Güler (34) and Funda G. (35).  In all, six suspects
were taken into custody, one of them a woman (Funda G.), who was
freed by the court.  The five other suspects' incarceration continues. 




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