A black money confession marked the Istanbul-based fraud case: “We were bringing money to Turkey with trucks under the name of Presence Peace.”
The ‘Asset Peace’, which allows money, gold, foreign exchange, securities and other capital market instruments to be brought to Turkey without being subject to tax inspection, has become almost a routine practice. In the last 13 years, the Peace of Asset application has been introduced or extended 9 times. While there were discussions about money laundering, Turkey was graylisted by the Financial Action Task Force for the Prevention of Money Laundering (FATF) of the OECD.
According to the news of Timur Soykan from Birgün, confessions of black money rained down in the fraud case in which an exchange office in Istanbul Fatih was located. Some of the statements in the indictment of the case in which Alaaddin Ak, Mustafa Ak and Volkan Özel are tried with a prison sentence of up to 60 years are as follows:
“We were bringing money to Turkey from abroad under the name of peace of existence. Volkan was delivering the money to us abroad, we were bringing it to Turkey in a suitable place in the trucks or through the drivers. In return, I was getting 1.5-2 percent commission at first.”
“I have a business independent of the Cengizler Exchange Office. I only use this exchange office for my money account. I bring the money of unknown origin abroad to the country and give it to the customers. … has trucks coming from abroad. We had a trade volume of 100 million euros with our customers.”
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