Three Return for Questioning as Erdoğan Pledges Fund Cleanup
The three were called back for questioning as Erdoğan said extraordinary liquidation payments had begun and would use no public funds.
Key takeaways
- Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, İlyas Kaya and İbrahim Ömer Gönül returned to give statements for a second time.
- Erdoğan said extraordinary liquidation payments began last Friday and were continuing.
- Erdoğan said the process would be managed without public funds.
Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, her husband İlyas Kaya and former capital markets regulator chief İbrahim Ömer Gönül returned to court to give statements for a second time in a criminal investigation into a fund crisis. Their appearance came as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said extraordinary liquidation payments had begun and would continue without public funds.
The three had previously given statements in late September and early October, according to Ekonomim. Prosecutors called them back as suspects. The report said they were expected to give their second statements.
The investigation has drawn attention to the couple’s trading in Özata Denizcilik shares. Zeynel Emre, a spokesperson for the Yeni Party, claimed the couple invested about 163 million lira and earned about 2 billion 170 million lira from selling the shares. Kaya later resigned as an AK Party deputy chair, Ekonomim reported.
Erdoğan said the State Supervisory Council was conducting its own review, while a fund coordination board was meeting regularly. He said payments in extraordinary liquidations began last Friday, after ordinary liquidations, and were continuing.
He said the process would rely on payments and recoveries from those involved, not public money. Erdoğan also said people who profited unfairly or manipulated capital markets would be held accountable.
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