Internet gambling site closed down
Turkey-Cyprus-Britain authorities cooperate to end gambling site
11 people out of 39, 2 of whom were women, were set free and 28 were committed for trial on Friday the 30th of May when it was suggested that they had built up a gambling and betting website in Britain, so breaking the law.
The activities of the website ‘www.superhabis.com’ was being watched closely by the Turkish police and it was established that there was a considerable amount of earnings generated from illegal online gambling and that these gains were released by the transfers between the banks in Britain, Ireland, Switzerland and northern Cyprus.
39 people were taken into custody following the arranged simultaneous operations to seven addresses in Turkish city centres.
70 computers, 7 hard disks, 1,155 CDs/DVDs, 33 memory cards, 134 bank credit card and deposit books with documents together with 1,191.40 grams of gold, 368,800 TL, US$10,371 and 4,550 euro earned from the crime were all taken as evidence.
It was declared that 16 people’s account transactions and transfers abroad were investigated by the Administration of Turkish Board of Financial Crimes Investigation (MASAK) and they were confirmed as receiving money illegally and that their property holdings were awarded an injunction.
It was revealed that Baris Kum, who had committed suicide on the 6th of November 2006 after gambling away the gained money belonging to his close relatives, was also using this website and that his family is suing the site owners.
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