Damascus-SANA
The scandals of the Turkish regime and its involvement in issues of corruption and association with terrorist organizations in the region continue, with secret recordings revealing that the so-called Bilal, son of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received from a Saudi businessman internationally classified as a financier of the terrorist al-Qaeda organization, an amount of half a million dollars within the framework of a suspected scheme.
The leaked recordings from a court in Istanbul and published by the Swedish Nordic Monitor website included transcripts of a phone conversation between Bilal Erdogan and the Saudi businessman who fled to Turkey Yassin al-Qadi and is being pursued internationally on charges of financing al-Qaeda.
In the first recording, the judge requested the bank account number of Erdogan's son and confirmed that the amount to be sent was half a million dollars. Bilal answered the call, saying that he was on his way to Washington and that he would send the bank details as soon as possible.
The recordings indicate that the conversation took place on May 14, 2013, while another recording of the phone calls on November 30, 2012 shows how the judge transferred his money through Turkey.
Reports indicate that Bilal and Al-Qadi were secret partners in the “Bosphorus 306” company, a shell company owned on paper by the Turkish businessman Cengiz Akturk, who has been close to Erdogan since he was prime minister.
Nordic Monitor notes that the judge had been designated by the US Treasury and the UN Sanctions Committee on a terrorist list, yet secretly made trips to Turkey, including on Erdogan's official plane, in 2011 when he was still under sanctions, followed by more attacks. He also met with Erdogan, Turkish Undersecretary of Intelligence Hakan Fidan and others, and his name was later removed from the United Nations list, followed by the removal of his name from the lists of the US Treasury.
Erdogan's scandals and his inner circle with issues of corruption and support for terrorism do not end
It is known and proven that Bilal, nicknamed "ISIS Oil Minister", is involved in major crimes that are not limited to corruption and bribery, but rather have close association with terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.
Bilal Erdogan’s crimes include the purchase and marketing of oil that was stolen by the terrorist organization “ISIS” from Syria and smuggled to Turkey and other corruption cases in Turkey and Italy. He is also being pursued by accusations of corruption in Turkey dating back to 2013 when his name was included in the list of those wanted to be summoned for interrogation as a suspect on fraud charges. Forgery and corruption in 28 tenders amounting to $100 billion.
Opposition Turkish newspapers had called Bilal “ISIS Oil Minister” for his great role with Berat Albayrak, the former Turkish Minister of Treasury and Finance in facilitating the smuggling of oil stolen by the terrorist organization from Syria, marketing and profiting from it until the value of the assets of his company, which he owned in partnership with his uncle Mustafa Erdogan and his son-in-law Zia, increased. Elgin to $180 million.
Basma Kanon