The world’s most popular live streaming platform twitchre-emerged with a police operation in Turkey. Istanbul Cyber ​​Crime Branch Directorate organized a dawn operation in 8 cities in Istanbul. It is alleged that the operations performed were fraudulent on Twitch. 18 people were detained†

Dawn operation, supported by special operations police, Istanbul simultaneously with Adana† Ankara† Balikesir† cananakkale† Eskisehir† Izmir and KirsehiruIt’s also done indoors. The intended names are reportedly transferring money to Twitch broadcasts using other people’s credit cards. ill-gotten gains they got.

It was done in January

Twitch has been on the agenda in Turkey for a while with a money laundering scandal. Mistake in the past months a similar morning operation realized40 suspects were detained in 11 provinces. It was learned that two of them had been arrested. According to the information obtained, today’s operation, Part of the operation performed in January 2022†

According to previously disclosed information, some Twitch channels, 1 million dollars a giant cargo They did† The fact that the amount was so high pushed Twitch much further than just a live streaming platform. The clearest indication of this is that the operations and events have been on the agenda for months. We’ll see what happens in the coming days…

You can watch our videos on the money laundering scandal below on Twitch