Although cryptocurrencies and platforms have become widespread, they can be central to fraud cases. Unfortunately, this situation is quite common both in Turkey and around the world. A statement from Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya today: crypto scams This shows that a major operation has taken place.

Yerlikaya said in his post on his official account: “In 21 provinces, centered in Ankara,“Smart trading currency” Operations named “SİBERGÖZ-42” were carried out against the so-called crypto asset buying/selling platform. As part of the operations, the suspects were arrested and assets worth a large sum of money were seized.

It was determined that 1 billion dollars in illegal profits had been obtained, 127 suspects were arrested

According to the minister’s statement: “High without riskWith the promise of profit aggravated fraud offense was processed. As a result of operations involving 21 provinces, from Antalya to Izmir, from Eskişehir to Çorum, from Balıkesir to Tekirdağ, It was determined that he had made $1 billion in illegal profits. and acts of international fraud 127 suspects were arrested.

Apart from this, it was reported that the bot application that performs automatic buy-sell transactions was sold and a “Ponzi chain” was created by promising profits to existing users if they brought new ones. Thus, it was determined that the fraudsters had committed international fraud and earned a profit of US$1 billion, equivalent to approximately TL 32 billion.

At the end of the operations the total 177 immovable and 61 movable assets worth TL 1 billion captured. It was also reported that 1 unlicensed weapon, 1 blank weapon and many digital materials were seized.