Turkish opposition candidate’s assets seized
10:30 – 18.01.14
Turkey’s state-run agency has said that the country’s banking
authority has seized assets belonging to an opposition party candidate
who is running for mayor of Istanbul in local elections in March.
Citing the Anadolu Agency, News Daily reported that the Savings
Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey seized Mustafa Sarigul’s bank
accounts and properties over unpaid debts surrounding a $ 3.5 million
bank loan that he and eight business partners took out in 1998.
Sarigul, who is the main opposition Republican People’s Party
candidate, called the measure an “unfair and political attack.”
The fund’s move comes as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
government is fighting a vast corruption probe that has targeted his
allies. Erdogan has said the probe is a conspiracy to harm his party
in the run-up to the elections.
Armenian News – Tert.am
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