Spanish football was amazed by the talent of Arda Turana Turk who oozed magic from his boots and who broke and accelerated the pace of the match with a precise singularity. After four years at Atlético de Madrid and another two at Barcelonahe returned to his native country to put on the team’s shirt Istanbul Basaksehir for three years and retire in the same club that saw him grow as a footballer, the Galatasaray. An entire career that deposited significant sums of money into his bank account and that, as Turan himself attests, They could have gone down the drain of a scam.
It all happened during his last stage in Turkey, now frustrated by the trust she placed in a businessman with whom she went to trial for the aforementioned scam. The judicial process has taken them until this week; The 14th High Criminal Court of Istanbul has accepted the beginning of a fraud trial that has affected another 18 people in the world of footballlike the Galatasaray goalkeeper, Fernando Musleraand that finds an alleged culprit in the former director of the Denizbank Levent bank, Secil Erzan.
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The scam that Erzan is accused of amounts to a total of 44 million dollars. And just over a quarter of that figure would have come directly from the former red and white star. He fooled me by saying: whoever invests in this fund will make profits. He gave away more than 13 million. All the money and effort he had earned. The work of years suddenly disappearedTuran has confessed in court, absolutely defeated by the fleeting nature with which a lifetime’s money can disappear.
I destroyed all the money and effort I earned by working for years by cheating on myself. I am very sorry, this incident exhausted me a lot. All my savings were lost in an instant, he continued his testimony. Erzan, despite his efforts to mask the scam, based part of his strategy, as Turn recognizes, on an insistence that bordered on heaviness: He called him many times to try to get the Turkish star to deposit his money in the fund he proposed.
Other victims and Erzan’s statement
Other different accusations have also been made that delve into the same scam. One of them claimed that Erzan asked him for two million dollars on March 31 and promised that on April 3 he would give him three, an agreement that was sealed in a written document. When the date arrived, attempts to find Erzan were useless. The manager of the bank branch had disappeared. A criminal complaint was filed that included crimes of bank embezzlement and qualified fraud. And the search began.
As detailed by the Prosecutor’s Office, other alleged victims of the businessman would be footballers Emre olak, Emre Belzoglu and Seluk Inan; In addition to the one who was Galatasaray’s translator for 13 years, Musa Mert etin and the aforementioned Uruguayan goalkeeper. In the case of the latter, Muslera assured that he lost 12 million dollars in the fund after investing an amount of money that he was never able to recover.
The businessman also sat in front of the court and, full of sincerity, recognized what all the complainants were accusing: I was Secil when I earned money, but when I couldn’t earn it I became a scammer. Now the grief he faces is going from 66 to 216 years. And the alleged victims breathe a sigh of relief to see that the bottomless pit into which their investments fell finds a judicial stop.
