Ankara Suffers From Massive Scam: Two Sisters Lose 40 Million Lira to False FETÖ Allegations

In Ankara, two sisters aged 64 and 67 fell victim to scammers posing as police and prosecutors, losing approximately 40 million lira under the false pretense of lifting a FETÖ investigation-related arrest warrant. The sisters, who sold their real estate and melted down their gold to hand over their assets to the scammers, were deceived through a series of phone calls. According to the complaint filed by the sisters' lawyer, Murat Koç, with the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the sisters, Afife Y. and Fatma Y., received a call from an individual claiming to be a chief commissioner on March 26. The complaint states that the sisters were called on different dates, threatened with an arrest warrant, and intimidated into cooperating. Over the course of three months, the scammers, who claimed to be conducting a 'covert operation', monitored the sisters using drones and warned them against sharing information with others, threatening that they would be committing a crime if they did so.