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The ads they give to the Internet search engine Google make it easy for scammers. Information and documents contained in two separate lawsuits filed in Bursa reveal the loom installed by the gigolo network. ZB (34), a resident of Hatay, is the complainant in one of the cases presented in two different higher criminal courts. Stating that he was hard-working and married in his statement, ZB entered a gigolo site that caught his eye while surfing the internet. ZB, browsing the site, was misled with promises that he would soon make a lot of money. ZB, who became a member of the site as a gigolo candidate, was soon sought out by a person who introduced himself as “Özge”. Speaking on the hotline issued on behalf of a Syrian woman living in Bursa, Özge told ZB that they are a corporate company and said: “I will direct you to a woman in no time.”
TICKET ‘PEARL’ COMMISSIONED
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This time, another person calling ZB, who was waiting, introduced himself as “İnci”. Noting that the agency ran her, İnci told ZB: “I invested 4,500 lira in the agency on your behalf; be your knowledge. “If you stay 2 more hours, I will pay 10 thousand TL more.” ZB, unaware that it fell into the hands of the network, replied “OK” to İnci’s offer. Minutes after this meeting, Özge called ZB again. “You should not negotiate with the client. He declared that it is the duty of this agency ”and affirmed that he must deposit money in the account number provided to him. This time, two people who introduced themselves as “Burak” and “Demir” entered the scene. These people allowed ZB to deposit 12,200 lira with 6 separate transfers under the name of membership fee, commission, taxes. In addition to the money invested, ZB also invested 4,100 lira. The reason for depositing this money was announced as ensuring the large amount of money the agency will deposit into your account. ZB realized that he had been disappointed when they asked him for another 2,200 lire and took a deep breath at the police station.
DIFFERENT NAMES, THE SAME PEOPLE
Vanlı B.Ö. (29) also went through a process similar to that of ZB. However, the names used by the people who called B.Ö were different. The people who presented themselves as employees of the ‘Tinder Agency’ allowed BA to invest a total of 22,470 lira. ZB and B.Ö. Although it appears that different people have contacted, the accounts the funds were deposited into and the suspects were the same people.
The files prepared in Hatay and Van were sent to Bursa. The Bursa prosecutor, Ali Çoban, filed a lawsuit against eight people accused of “qualified fraud”. Among the suspects, Canberk Torlak (28), Muratcan Öner (23), Alperen Bilaç (23) and Murat Bilgin (24) were arrested. It was understood that 2 of the other 4 suspects were in custody for other crimes.
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THE MIDDLE CONFESSED
Orhan Y. (27), one of the detained defendants, explained the facts in detail in the police statement. Yalçın, who said he was working as mobile mussels in Bursa, is the person who introduced him to the network, Ali Ş. stated that. Saying that Ali Ş told him that he was working in the international secret service and that they had to use his accounts to break a network they were following, “They told me to open an account with 5 different banks. I gave Canbert Torlak all the passwords and cards for the accounts I opened. Torlak also gave me 250 TL. And he told me that they would pay 800-1000 lire regularly every month. I withdrew the 46,400 lira that came to my account because it was blocked and I gave it to Muratcan Öner. Öner gave 2-3 thousand lire of this money. Two weeks have passed and I went to the police station because I suspected that these people were doing something illegal, but they did not believe me and they did not receive my request. Then I went to the prosecutor’s office and filed a criminal complaint ”.
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TRANSFER OF ‘AGENCY MEMBERSHIP’
The detained defendant Murat Bilgin (24) stated in his statement that he made the accounts he opened in 5 different banks available to Muratcan Öner, who introduced himself as textile manufacturers, and Canberk Torlak. “They told me, ‘We will hire you as an ATM manager,'” Bilgin said: “They gave me 800 TL a week after handing over the cards.” Bilgin continued: “On December 29, 2019, Muratcan Öner, Canberk Torlak and İpek S. had gone to the Çekirge police station to testify. That day, Canberk left me the phone with the bills. When I looked at the money received in the account, I saw statements like “three month membership”, “agency membership” and “I want to be a gigolo” in the explanation sections, I understood what these people were doing and we had a fight with they. Bilgin said he twice witnessed the money collected being delivered to people at an address in Esenyurt, Istanbul.
