Grocery shop ‘Hawala’ office is out

Ferit ZENGİN (NEWS CENTER) – Evaluating a report they received, the police determined that illegal transactions were carried out against foreigners in a workplace disguised as a grocery store. In the researches, it was determined that the grocery store was also used as a «Hawala» office. The police, who entered the address and raided the address on April 8, disguised as a customer, and seized the agenda and documents showing the money transfers from the address to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Serbia.

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During the raid, two Afghan suspects, HKA and NA, were detained as the owner of the address, who entered Turkey with refugee status and then obtained a residence permit. During the searches, the money counting machine, the agenda showing the money movements and the account statements were seized. The two suspects, who were referred to the courthouse, were released after judicial control.

What is Hawala?

It is a method used especially in countries and regions where international financial institutions are not available and banking systems are not widespread. In this method, an agreement is made with a mutual office, exchange office or jeweler in the two countries. For example, a person who will send money to our country from Afghanistan goes to the “Hawala” center in his country and deposits money. He gets a password for the money he deposits. It sends the received password to the person who will receive the money in our country. Then, the same amount of money is collected from the illegal “Hawala” center established in Turkey.