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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

August 19

- Will get round to taking a look at the papers a.s.a.p. but this item is probably of interest to many of you who invested in Aga Developments.

Arrested! 19/08/2006

TUNCEL Tahir Soycan has been arrested for many counts of fraud, forgery, identity fraud and has been remanded in custody for a further two days for the sake of the investigation.

Tahir Soycan and his associate Cuneyt Diker were arrested yesterday and brought in front of a judge at Lefkosa District court for the remand hearing.

The investigating officer PC Ali Uzun accompanied by the Police's special Graphology and Handwriting expert Bekir Barut told the court that during their investigation to this point, they had found large numbers of documents involving forged signatures made by Tuncel Tah

ir Soycan on documents relating to Aga Development, Aga Finance, Britannia Construction and Britannia Development.

He said that they had obtained these documents from the TRNC Company's House and that the Police's Graphology and Handwriting Expert Bekir Ba¬rut's opinion was that they were 'definitely' forged.

PC Ali Uzun, who has been involved in the investigation from the beginning, also told the court that there were a number of documents at the vehicle registration office that were forged and a total of 21 vehicles had changed hands from Gary Robb to Tahir Soycan. Asked if they had any objections to the police request Tahir Soycan's legal representative from Guner Goktug Law firm and Lawyer Savas Atakan on behalf of Cuneyt Diker did not object. The Judge adjourned the hearing for five minutes and later called the prosecution, the police, the defense and the suspects to her chambers and handed her verdict.

Hearing the news from the Cyprus Times Gary Robb first found it hard to believe but later said that he expected an arrest but was pleasantly surprised how fast the TRNC legal system could work.

He especially thanked the team of hardworking police officers who have been working day and night for the last week to gather the necessary evidence to make the arrest. He also thanked Cyprus Times and Kibrisli for raising public awareness on the issue.

He said that this arrest was going to be a turning point on the so called Aga saga and he hoped that things from now on would be better.

© Copyright Cyprus Times 2006

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