{"id":22176,"date":"2026-09-20T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/turkey-detains-191-in-3-billion-fraud-case-linked-to-crypto-and-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T07:00:17","slug":"turkey-detains-191-in-3-billion-fraud-case-linked-to-crypto-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/turkey-detains-191-in-3-billion-fraud-case-linked-to-crypto-and-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains 191 in $3bn fraud case tied to crypto and forex markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish authorities have announced the arrest of 191 people on suspicion of involvement in an international financial crime network operating in the cryptocurrency and foreign exchange markets, which they say was responsible for offences worth $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported that the arrests were carried out as part of a wide-ranging fraud investigation. According to Turkish authorities, the network was linked to Israel, and a large share of the money connected to it was transferred in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Turkey&#8217;s justice minister stated that the findings of the investigation show that a number of Israelis were involved in the network. At the same time, Israel&#8217;s foreign ministry confirmed that it had received information about the detention of several of its citizens in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Maariv added that arrest warrants have also been issued via Interpol for some people linked to the case outside Turkey. Interpol is the international body that coordinates police cooperation between countries and is used in cross-border cases to pursue suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey says 191 people were arrested in a $3 billion fraud probe linked to crypto, forex markets and Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}