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Four suspects detained in Eskişehir loan-sharking investigation
Gendarmerie officers detained four suspects in Eskişehir in an investigation into suspected loan-sharking.
The operation covered homes and businesses in the districts of Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı and Alpu.
Loan-sharking involves lending money on unfair terms to make a profit.
Officers seized 2,137 pistol cartridges, promissory notes, three checks, financial documents and seven debt records.
They also found a coin believed to date from the Roman period and four mobile phones.
The four suspects are being processed under the offence of loan-sharking, and the allegations have not been proven.
Gendarmerie detained four suspects in an investigation into alleged loan-sharking in Eskişehir.
Searches were conducted at the suspects’ homes and workplaces in Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı and Alpu.
Officers seized 2,137 pistol cartridges, signed debt notes, three cheques and 83 blank debt notes.
They also seized seven account books, financial documents, four mobile phones and a coin believed to date from the Roman period.
Proceedings were initiated against the four suspects on suspicion of loan-sharking.
- Who
- Four suspects were detained by provincial gendarmerie teams.
- What
- They are suspected of loan-sharking.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı and Alpu districts of Eskişehir.
- Why
- Authorities said the suspects were believed to have made unlawful profits through loan-sharking.
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Gendarmerie teams began work to apprehend four suspects believed to have made unlawful profits through loan-sharking.
Teams searched the suspects’ homes and workplaces in Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı and Alpu and seized evidence.
The four suspects were detained and proceedings were initiated against them on suspicion of loan-sharking.
- Suspects detained
- 4
- Districts searched
- Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı and Alpu
- Pistol cartridges seized
- 2,137
- Cheques seized
- 3
- Blank debt notes seized
- 83
- Mobile phones seized
- 4