In Istanbul, there were 945 operations in 2019 and 3,220 were arrested and locked up for suspected cases of money laundering with a total of about 450 million pounds involved. However, out of a total of 3,220 suspected by the Financial Crimes Team, only 462 of them actually committed the crime, and over 273 million fake American dollars, 5 kilos of fake gold, 575 fake official documents, and over 700 fake IDs and passports were retrieved from the arrested.
