CHAPTER 7

Two Money-Laundering Cases

Money Laundering in Turkey

Some cases that MASAK has shared with public to increase public’s and authorities’ awareness to such crimes include:

   1.  Historical Artifacts Smuggling

Transfers of large sums within the bank caused the research. MASAK found a criminal organization including 12 people who smuggled $300,000 of valued historical artifact. The sale proceeds were transferred to the criminals’ bank accounts in Turkey. The bank in the country that launderers smuggled the historical artifacts from informed the bank in Turkey about the transfers. During the research related bank accounts were investigated by the authorities. The criminal were caught smuggling historical artifacts and could not present ...

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