Five people dressed in police uniforms, including two Muğla police officers, staged a fake operation against a villa in Istanbul where Chinese tourists were staying. In the incident in which 65,000 dollars of crypto money and 45,000 liras were extorted, 5 people, including police officer Emin Yıldırgan, were detained.
Cryptocurrency robbery in Istanbul
The friend of Erkan Selimoğlu, who lives in Istanbul, who is a police officer in Menteşe district of Muğla and nicknamed ‘Pinti’, is Emin Yıldırgan. He said he had found a defenseless and wealthy Chinese family. Yıldırgan accepted Selimoğlu’s offer “We can become rich in a short time by raiding the houses of the Chinese” and exchanged ideas with his colleague Beytullah Öznep, tradesmen Ali Yılmaz and Oktayam.
4 people who left their phones in Muğla and went to Istanbul by car, made a plan not to be caught with Erkan Selimoğlu, whom they met in Küçükçekmece. The other three people were dressed in police vests brought by police officers Emin Yıldırgan and Beytullah Özgaznep. Five people who robbed the house where the Chinese tourists were staying, confiscated 45 thousand liras and fled with their cold wallet and passwords, which had 65,000 dollars in cryptocurrencies.
A special team was established to apprehend the suspects
After the notification, the police arrived at the address and used the statements of Chinese visitors and security camera video to identify the suspects. The defendants were caught in their residences in the Menteşe District of Muğla by a special team affiliated to the Public Security Branch of the Istanbul Provincial Security Directorate. Emin Yıldırgan, Beytullah Özgaznep, Ali Yılmaz, Oktay Çam and Erkan Selimoğlu, who were transferred to Istanbul, were arrested after their procedures at the police station. It was determined that 45 thousand TL and a crypto money wallet were missing in the suspects’ residences. As we have mentioned in the news
Kriptokoin.com , an operation was carried out in five Istanbul-based provinces within the scope of a crypto money fraud investigation in the past weeks. The attacker, who was chasing a person investing in cryptocurrencies, moved 12.77 Bitcoin (BTC) to separate accounts with remote access software, and eight of the nine suspects identified were taken into custody.
