土耳其市场监管机构负责人马哈茂德·苏特库（Mahmut Sutcu）在一场导致该国市场动荡的基金危机期间于周一辞职。
Turkey’s market regulator chief, Mahmut Sutcu, stepped down on Monday during the fallout of a fund crisis that’s upended the country’s markets.
据国营安纳托利亚通讯社（Anadolu Agency）报道，苏特库以“健康问题”为由辞职。他自5月以来一直担任这一职务。
Sutcu cited “health issues” as the reason, state-run Anadolu Agency said. He had been in the role since May.
苏特库的辞职正值政府官员和公众对市场监管机构是否未能防范这场被司法部长称为“庞氏骗局”的投资计划加大审查之际。
Sutcu’s resignation coincides with increased scrutiny by government officials and the public about whether the market regulator failed to prevent what the justice minister has termed a “Ponzi-like scheme” among many high-profile investment funds.
检察官正在调查苏特库的前任易卜拉欣·奥默·贡努尔（Ibrahim Omer Gonul）是否未能充分监管这些基金；这些基金在赎回请求失败前几个月就引发了投资者的怀疑，而赎回请求的失败最终导致了投资者的大量撤离。在此期间，苏特库是贡努尔的副手之一。
Prosecutors are investigating whether Sutcu’s predecessor, Ibrahim Omer Gonul, failed to adequately supervise funds whose astronomical returns raised suspicions months before redemption-request failures sparked an investor exodus in September. Sutcu was one of Gonul’s deputies during this time.
作为同一调查的一部分，包括Tera Portfoy Yonetimi AS和Pusula Portfoy Yonetimi AS在内的数十家资产管理公司的高管已被关押等待审判。
Dozens of executives from asset managers including Tera Portfoy Yonetimi AS and Pusula Portfoy Yonetimi AS, have been jailed pending trial as part of the same investigation.
投资者原本期望苏特库能加强对基金投资于交易清淡股票的监管，并提高交易透明度。
After he became president, investors looked to Sutcu to tighten restrictions on funds’ exposure to thinly traded stocks and improve trading transparency. An SPK guideline published in August, however, failed to please a majority of market participants and triggered heavy withdrawals from certain funds.
然而，土耳其证券交易委员会（SPK）在8月发布的指导方针并未让大多数市场参与者满意，反而引发了某些基金的巨额资金撤离。
Liquidity pressures intensified the following month when Tera and Pusula, which had been producing unusually high returns, failed to meet some redemption requests. The SPK has since ordered 131 funds with nearly half a million investors into liquidation.
10月14日，在关于这些基金清算的议会会议上，SPK副主席阿赫门特·阿克苏（Ahmet Aksu）表示，监管机构将接受任何对其责任认定的审查结果。苏特库并未出席该会议。
During a parliamentary session on Oct. 14 about the liquidations, SPK deputy president Ahment Aksu said that the regulator would accept the outcome of any review determining its culpability. Sutcu didn’t attend the session.