Bahar Korakan, the suspect who was arrested for allegedly embezzling 39 million TL from the financial institution the place she labored in Nicosia, was dropped at courtroom once more.
Police officer Kübra Ari from the Monetary Department, who conveyed the info in courtroom, mentioned that Bahar Korakan, who labored as a department supervisor of a financial institution in Köşklüçiftlik between September and November 2024, initially obtained a million 220 thousand TL, 185 thousand 800 GBP, 24 thousand 290 GBP from the financial institution's account. Euro, 250 {Dollars} and 33 thousand 350 TL money from ATM He mentioned that he was arrested on November 6 on the grounds that he dedicated the crime of smuggling by his worker by stealing.
The police said that the suspect, who was a financial institution supervisor, confessed in his oral assertion and written assertion that he spent the cash in playing along with his spouse. Police said that the suspect's residence was searched, 3 agendas, varied paperwork, 2 cellphones, 5 thousand TL money consisting of 25 200 TL banknotes, 8 on line casino recreation playing cards, 2 buyer financial institution receipts, cash belonging to the financial institution. counting declaration, cash switch instruction, delivery receipt, 17 web page photocopy of delivery receipt, 9 belonging to a different financial institution however personal He mentioned that there have been receipts belonging to an individual who was additionally his buyer.
Through the search of the car registered within the identify of the suspect, the police discovered 47 thousand 723 TL and 105 Euros in money within the bag, 3 notebooks with many buyer names and quantities written on them, a calendar, financial institution teller paperwork, an envelope with “Bahar Hanım” written on it. A letter with the shopper's identify written inside stating that 45 thousand {dollars} and 30 thousand kilos have been deposited by the shopper, 1,223 stamps with a complete worth of 9,387 TL, He said that 13 receipts with stamps however no writing on them, 7 clean receipts with no stamps or writing on them, and 21 buyer receipts with the shopper's identify on them and a photocopy of the verify had been detected and brought as proof.
When the suspect was requested to elucidate the cash within the envelope, the police mentioned that it belonged to his brother and that he had withdrawn it from his brother's account round November 6, 2024, however in the course of the investigation, they decided that this was not true.
Police officer Kübra Ari introduced that the money discovered within the suspect's car was deposited to the Income and Tax Workplace. The police mentioned that though the financial institution doesn’t have a service similar to taking jewellery into belief, the suspect took jewellery value roughly 205 thousand TL from a buyer 4 instances in 2020, 2023 and 2024 and gave the shopper a written doc stating that he had taken them into belief. The police said that when the suspect was requested for a proof on this matter, he mentioned that he didn’t trade the jewellery on the jeweler, didn’t give it to anybody, however didn’t keep in mind what he did. The police officer defined that the suspect, with the intention of defrauding clients, ready pretend account statements on papers with the financial institution's identify written on them, as a substitute of actual account statements, and gave them the pretend paperwork he ready after signing them, as a substitute of actual account statements.
Police mentioned they took pretend financial institution statements from clients as proof. The police officer famous that within the analysis carried out on the account numbers on these paperwork, they decided that there have been no such accounts within the topic financial institution.
The police famous that the pc protected utilized by the suspect within the financial institution and belonging to the financial institution was taken as proof for examination, and said that the suspect opened accounts within the names of the purchasers with out their information, transferred cash to those accounts from their actual accounts and withdrew money, and in addition obtained loans from the financial institution by impersonating the purchasers with out their information. The police officer instructed the courtroom that they found that the suspect, collectively along with his spouse, had obtained 25 thousand 144 Euros, 22 thousand 496 GBP, and 10 thousand US {dollars} from a international trade workplace in 22 journeys, and had made gross sales of 21 thousand 890 GBP and 24 thousand 390 Euros.
The police officer mentioned that the suspect's spouse instructed the police that she thought the cash was made on behalf of the financial institution and that she heard her husband say that there was a money deficit of 130 thousand kilos sterling earlier than his arrest.
Noting that the suspect purchased two BMW mannequin autos between 2020 and 2022 and three bikes between 2023 and 2024, the police mentioned that they took statements from 67 individuals and that they’d take statements from 25 extra individuals.
Police mentioned that the suspect was final dropped at courtroom on November 22 and was given an extra seven days. The police introduced that because of the investigation, they decided that the suspect purchased two BMW autos for 1 million 206 thousand TL. The police additionally introduced that they decided that the suspect fraudulently obtained 605 thousand kilos sterling, 371 thousand 500 TL, by forging 11 checks. The police introduced that the suspect stole 25 thousand 636 kilos sterling and 900 TL from the purchasers who took out loans by making further deductions below the identify of “expense”. Police mentioned that the suspect scribbled and destroyed the date, quantity and identify sections after the transactions concerning the checks had been accomplished. Police said that when the suspect was requested to elucidate the checks, he mentioned that he broke the checks and took money, that he did it to cowl the hole within the financial institution's protected, however that he went bankrupt.
The police mentioned that many account statements and receipt photos, believed to be pretend, had been discovered in the course of the examination of the suspect's cellphones, and that it was decided that the suspect had misplaced 18 million 167 thousand TL in casinos since 2020. The police mentioned that it was decided that the suspect's spouse additionally misplaced 18 million 167 thousand TL in casinos.
The police officer defined that 31 financial institution clients, whose retirement bonuses and financial savings had been stolen, and the financial institution filed a grievance in opposition to the suspect. The police introduced that the full quantity stolen by the suspect within the investigation carried out up to now is 7 million TL, 586 thousand 280 Kilos, 79 thousand 519 Euros and 84 thousand 117 {dollars}.
The police officer introduced that the Turkish Lira equal of the amount of cash stolen by the suspect at present trade charges was 38 million 610 thousand TL. He said that the a part of the investigation that might affect the suspect has been accomplished, that the verify forgery and bank-related crimes he dedicated carry life imprisonment, and that the stolen quantity reached 39 million lira, together with jewellery value 205 thousand lira.
The police additionally requested pre-trial detention, saying that the suspect had been recognized to have entered and exited Southern Cyprus many instances and that there was a chance of his escape.
Decide Nuray Necdet, who evaluated the testimony earlier than him, ordered the suspect to be despatched to jail for a interval not exceeding 2 months.
