14 Nisan 2021 Çarşamba

Hoodwinker Taxi Driver and Cohort Overexposed

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 14 April 2021)














   Very fussy about the bills - perfers Benjamin Franklin.

On 14 March in Istanbul, Chechenistan citizen E.S. and two relatives 
got into a taxi at Eminönü and agreed to pay the driver 30 TL (about $4) 
to take them to Taksim Square.  E.S. took 30 TL from her purse and 
handed it to the driver, who objected to the "old bills" and asked E.S. to 
give him new bills instead. 

In the meantime, though, the driver with sleight of hand took $4,000
from E.S.'s purse.  E.S. noticed this and asked the driver to give the
dollars back.  As an argument broke out, an individual approached
the taxi, as if to help in some way.  

Thinking that this person would help her, E.S. and her two relatives 
got out of the taxi.  But the "good samaritan" hopped in the taxi and
took off with the driver (!).  E.S. called the police, who were 
(somehow) able to review the video images taken inside the taxi and
they determined the identities of the suspects.  Last Saturday, police
apprehended taxi driver K.P. (30) and his cohort C.D. (44) and took
them both into custody. 




















Driver K.P. and cohort C.D. seen here planning the caper.


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