Report reveals Topal's tax evasion to be $1 billion 593 million
The Board of Accounting Experts inferior to the finance ministry have completed the tax evasion report on the assets of Omer Lutfi Topal, the former owner of many casinos. The experts have scrutinised every transaction of Topal from 1993 to 1996, and completed the widest and most elaborate tax investigation in the history of the Turkish Republic. The report, which is the fruit of two and a half years' inquiry, the probe of tens of thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews, reveals with detail the deeds and ongoins in the casinos owned by Topal.
According to the report , the amount of money Topal succeeded to withhold through tax evasion totals up to $1,593,000,000. Topal , within the four-year period , had hidden an income 181 times greater than the value he declared.
The Finance Ministry
has frozen Topal's assets, and prepares to sell his real estate in order to deduct the tax debt.