Bodrum fraud on land registry and title deeds

Muğla police took 24 people into custody Monday in the Aegean district of Bodrum on charges of fraud on land registry and title deeds, news agencies reported.

The detained include the head of the Bodrum Land Registry Office, four civil servants at the office and six real estate dealers.

Police also raided the houses and workplaces of the suspects and said they seized many fake title deeds and land registry papers.

Doğan news agency reported the operation was launched on complaints from 14 people, including businesspeople and some foreigners, to Bodrum prosecutor’s office. The complainants alleged that the title deeds to the houses and properties they bought for hundreds of thousands of dollars were counterfeit.

Police officials said there might be further operations and more people could be detained.

Meanwhile, Savaş Ergün, who has been working as a real estate dealer in Bodrum for 26 years, accused the registry office workers of deliberately slowing procedures down “to demand money.”

“A title deed would be prepared in a day 10 years ago, when they worked with typewriters,” Ergün said in front of police headquarters, where the suspects were being held. “Now they work with computers but you cannot get a paper back in 10 days.”

Ergün said he expected such an operation to be launched against registry office workers.

“If you pay, you get your title deed in an hour,” he said. “I and other real estate dealers in Bodrum have filed numerous complaints telling everything about the situation. I hope that the operation goes into the most minute detail and that the culprits are punished.”

Source – Hurriyet Daily News

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