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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 1 August 2024)
High finance in the market. They don't even have to wear ties.
The Turkish Central Bank filed a criminal complaint against Afghan
citizen M.M.N. (35) for engaging in "hawala" (illegally collecting money
and sending it abroad via prohibited avenues). As a result of the complaint,
M.M.N. was charged with violating the anti-terror law, with a requested
sentence of 10 years in jail, and with "acting contrary to banking laws",
which stipulates a sentence of up to three years.
However (!), M.M.N. claimed that all the money in his account was his
own, coming from land he sold in Afghanistan. Over 5 months there
were 647 transactions noted in his bank account, with 1,629,839 TL
(about $49,000) entering from a number of different individuals. In
his dollar account there were 26 transactions involving 18 different
people for a total transfer amount of $226,747. In total, there were
82 different transactions in M.M.N.'s account involving mostly
foreigners and amounting to 173,296,000 TL ($5.25 million).
Nevertheless, an Ankara court acquitted M.M.N. of the charges,
citing a lack of evidence (!). The Treasury and Finance Ministry
has appealed the verdict.
Just add "Hawala"-brand detergent...
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