Damaged car scam! 265 years in prison for two brothers!

O. A., the ringleader of the organization, was sentenced to 147.5 years in prison and his brother E. A. was sentenced to 117.5 years in prison. 24 defendants allegedly defrauded 38 owners of damaged vehicles in Adana by pretending that they were calling from an insurance company. 20 defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3 years and 4 months to 53 years. 2 defendants were acquitted. It was revealed that O. A. went to a 'Psychic' and had an amulet made for 1,500 liras in order to avoid being caught by the police and to make his business go well.

On September 4, 2018, an operation was conducted against a criminal organization based on the criminal complaints made to Adana Public Prosecutor's Office by many people who had accidents in Adana about being defrauded by people claiming to be insurance company officials. 24 people were arrested.

3 ARRESTED

According to the news in DHA, O. A., who is alleged to be the ringleader of the criminal organization, his brother E. A. and T. E. were arrested, while 21 people were released on judicial control conditions.

HE HAD AN AMULET MADE BY A PSYCHIC

During a search of the house where O. A. was staying, a 7-meter-long, 80-centimeter-wide sketch of Kürkçüler Prison, knotted hair and yarn braids in amulet jars were found. It was revealed that O. A. went to a 'Psychic' and had an amulet made for 1,500 liras in order to avoid being caught by the police and to make his business go well.

CASE FILED FOR FRAUD

The Prosecutor of the Organized Crime Investigation Bureau filed a lawsuit against the suspects on the charges of 'Fraud by introducing oneself as a public official or an employee of banks, insurance and credit institutions or saying that one is related to these institutions, 'Establishing an organization to commit a crime', 'Being a member of a criminal organization' and 'Assisting a criminal organization'.

VERDICT IN 5-YEAR TRIAL

Adana 7th High Criminal Court held the final hearing of the case that has been ongoing for about 5 years. The only arrested defendant of the case, O. A., who is alleged to be the ringleader of the criminal organization, and some of the defendants without arrest and their lawyers attended the hearing. The defendants repeated their previous defenses.

"I WAS GIVING ALLOWANCE TO THOSE WHOSE ACCOUNTS I USED"

In his previous defense, O. A. said that he had identified damaged or totaled vehicles on the internet. Stating that his brother E. A. did not want to commit fraud, O. A. said, "However, as a result of my pressure, he was helping these businesses. T. E. didn't work for me. It's not my mom's fault. Once we transferred money to my mother's account, but she did not know it was fraud money." O. A. said that the people whose accounts they used did not know about the fraud and that he gave these people an allowance of 50-100 liras.

HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS BAHADIR AND HAKAN

E. A., who claimed that his brother O. A. wrote some names on a piece of paper and asked him to call him, said, "After introducing myself as Bahadır or Hakan, I said what my brother wrote on the paper. There are several complainants I called in this way."

"WE ATE THE MONEY IN THE NIGHTCLUB"

T. E. defended that he had nothing to do with the incidents and said, "I don't know any of these people. If any of the complainants saw me and gave me money, I am willing to take any punishment. I'm under arrest for nothing. We used to go out with O. A. to have fun at night, he paid for it himself. I only gave R.Ç.'s account number to O. A.. O. A. gave me 1000 liras in return, and we ate this money with R.Ç. in the night club."

147 YEARS IN PRISON FOR RINGLEADER OF CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION

The court sentenced O. A., the alleged ringleader of the criminal organization, to a total of 147.5 years in prison for 'Fraud by Nature'. O. A.' brother E. A. was sentenced to 117.5 years in prison for the same offense.

Other defendants, T. E. 53 years, R.Ç. 31 years and 3 months, S.A. 26 years and 3 months, G.D. 17 years and 1 month, E.G. 15 years, T.S.G. and M.G. 11 years and 3 months each, H.E.S. 10 years and 10 months, K.T.P. 10 years, V.C., H.C. and M.A. 8 years and 9 months each, Ö.K., Y.O.S., D.P., İ.E. and C.S. 5 years each, M.H. 4 years and 2 months, G.M. 3 years and 9 months, S.A. was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison. A.E. and S.Ş.O. were acquitted due to lack of evidence. All defendants were acquitted of the charges of 'Establishing an organization to commit a crime, being a member of an organization, knowingly and willingly aiding an organization'.

HOW WERE THEY SCAMMED?

The indictment details how members of the criminal organization defrauded owners of damaged vehicles. In the indictment, which states that O. A. founded and managed the criminal organization, A.'s brother E.O. and T. E. were the managers of the criminal organization, and other suspects were members of the organization or aided the organization, the A. brothers had an accident that was advertised on the internet, It was stated that by taking advantage of the advertisements of foreclosed vehicles, they called the service stations to which the damaged vehicles were connected and introduced themselves as officials of some insurance companies and provided the contact information of the vehicle owners by saying 'We will foreclose the vehicle in the service, but the phone number of the vehicle owner was entered incorrectly in the system, we cannot reach the vehicle owner, we will deposit 30 to 50 thousand liras of vehicle money to the vehicle owner during the day'.

FIRST THEY DEFRAUDED VEHICLE OWNERS AND THEN SERVICE WORKERS

Later, the executives of the criminal organization called the owners of the vehicles whose phones they received as insurance company officials and said, "Your vehicle's pardon process has been approved, we will give you a new vehicle or we will deposit 30 to 50 thousand liras of vehicle money during the day. It was recorded that the owners of the vehicles they deceived by saying 'we will give you back the vehicle that was totaled for a third of 5-10 thousand liras, and if you want to buy it with its license plate, we can give it to you in this state', they made money transfers in different amounts to the bank and PTT account numbers belonging to some members of the criminal organization.

It was pointed out that the members of the criminal organization, who were not satisfied with this, directed the citizens to notaries by saying that they would transfer the vehicle, and immediately afterwards, they called the service where the vehicle was located and asked whether the vehicle belonging to the citizen they had defrauded was in their own insurance company, whether they would buy the vehicle at a third price, and as a result of the bargaining, they sold the vehicle, which they had no rights, to the service employees or third parties, and transferred a certain amount of money to the accounts as a deposit, and carried out qualified fraud incidents and made unfair gains.

THEY TOOK THOSE WHOSE ACCOUNTS WERE USED TO ENTERTAINMENT

It was recorded that the A. brothers, who gave a certain percentage of the money deposited to the account holders as a commission, took the people whose accounts were used in the incidents they carried out or who provided them with accounts to nightclubs for entertainment.

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