He took advantage of the power outage at the exchange office and stole 300 gold coins

The suspect, who was determined to have stolen 300 gold coins by taking advantage of the power outage at the foreign exchange office where he worked in Fatih, was taken into custody. Update Date: July 25, 2026 10:00 Istanbul Police Department Public Order Branch Directorate Fraud Bureau teams started an investigation into the theft of 300 gold coins during a power outage at the foreign exchange office operating in Fatih on July 22. As a result of the field investigation and technical follow-up studies, it was determined that İ.K., who worked as a banker at the workplace, committed the theft by taking advantage of the power outage.

The suspect was detained in an operation carried out yesterday. During the operation, 282 whole gold coins and 90 thousand lira, considered to have been obtained from the sale of gold, were seized. Deepening the investigation, the teams determined that the suspect had previously stolen 100 grams of gold from the workplace, and in his last theft, he exchanged 18 full gold coins at the jeweler and converted them into 100 grams and left them at the workplace.

İ.K., whose procedures at the police station were completed, was referred to the courthouse. The suspect was recorded on the security camera exchanging the last stolen gold coins at the jeweler and replacing the gold coins he had previously stolen from the workplace.