当地媒体报道称，土耳其保险公司Sigorta AS的两名高管因涉嫌参与土耳其基金市场操纵丑闻的大规模调查而被捕，该公司股价延续跌势。
Sigorta AS shares extended losses after local media reported that two of its top executives were arrested as part of a sweeping probe into allegations of market manipulation in Turkish funds.
据国营阿纳多卢通讯社报道，首席执行官塔哈·恰克马克（Taha Cakmak）及其副手古罗尔·萨米·奥泽（Gurol Sami Ozer）本月早些时候被拘留。该公司股价受到重创，过去两天暴跌18%，跌至近两年来的最低水平。
Chief Executive Officer Taha Cakmak and his deputy Gurol Sami Ozer were detained earlier this month, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. The company’s shares have been hit hard, tumbling 18% in the past two days and falling to the lowest in almost two years.
广播公司NTV援引未具名消息人士报道称，国有支持的保险公司土耳其Sigorta（Turkiye Sigorta）被指控将资金投入由处于基金危机中心的经纪公司Tera Portfoy Yonetimi管理的基金。恰克马克的律师厄尔辛·于切尔（Ersin Yucel）表示，其当事人否认所有不法行为，并计划对逮捕提出上诉。
Broadcaster NTV reported allegations that Turkiye Sigorta, a state-back insurance company, had steered cash into funds managed by Tera Portfoy Yonetimi, the brokerage firm at the center of the fund crisis, citing sources it did not identify. Cakmak’s lawyer, Ersin Yucel, said his client has denied all wrongdoing, and plans to appeal the arrest.
恰克马克和奥泽加入了土耳其金融界被捕知名人士的不断增长的名单，当局试图控制一场已严重打击股市和债市的危机。检察官表示，他们正在调查一起大规模丑闻，当地投资基金购买了往往默默无闻公司的股票，然后将其价值多次虚高。
Cakmak and Ozer join a growing list of prominent figures from Turkey’s finance scene who have been arrested as authorities try to get a grip on a crisis that has battered stock and bond markets. Prosecutors have said they’re investigating a vast scandal that saw local investment funds buy up shares in often-obscure companies and then inflate their values many times over.
司法部长阿金·古尔莱克（Akin Gurlek）本月在社交媒体帖子中表示，迄今已有88名嫌疑人被捕。
Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said in a social media post this month that 88 suspects have been arrested so far.
总部位于伊斯坦布尔的土耳其Sigorta未回应多次寻求置评的电话和电子邮件。该公司76%由土耳其主权财富基金持有，该基金主席为总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安。
Istanbul-based Turkiye Sigorta didn’t respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking comment. The firm is 76%-owned by Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund, the chairman of which is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
恰克马克曾是银行监管机构官员和土耳其央行前副行长，他监管的一家公司曾成为该国股市的宠儿。自2023年他获任命以来，土耳其Sigorta股价在5月达到高点时飙升超过500%，跑赢伊斯坦布尔100指数上几乎所有其他公司。
Cakmak, a former bank regulator and ex-deputy governor of the Turkish central bank, oversaw a company that had become a darling of the country’s stock market. Since he was appointed in 2023, Turkiye Sigorta shares soared more than 500% through a peak in May, outpacing almost all other companies on the Borsa Istanbul 100 Index.
但自9月以来，该股一直处于自由落体状态，市值蒸发超过40%。Turkiye Sigorta于10月15日宣布恰克马克辞职，随后推迟了原定于10月19日发布的第三季度业绩。接着在周一，董事会宣布还解雇了副总裁厄泽尔。
But since September, the stock has been in freefall and erased more than 40% of its market value. Turkiye Sigorta announced Cakmak’s resignation on Oct. 15 and then postponed its third-quarter results, which were due Oct. 19. Then on Monday, the board announced it was also firing deputy CEO Ozer.
Turkiye Sigorta成立于2020年，由多家国有银行的保险子公司合并而成。根据10月21日的一份演示文稿，该公司自那以来迅速增长，占据了土耳其保险市场的最大份额。
Turkiye Sigorta was created through a merger in 2020 of insurance subsidiaries of state-owned banks. The firm has grown rapidly since then and holds the biggest share of the Turkish insurance market, according to an Oct. 21 presentation.
根据申报数据，由Tera Yatirim Menkul Degerler AS管理的投资基金曾是Turkiye Sigorta的股东之一。这些基金在8月——即丑闻爆发前夕——买入了至少部分股份。
Investment funds overseen by Tera Yatirim Menkul Degerler AS, were among the shareholders in Turkiye Sigorta, according to filings data. The funds bought at least some of their shares in August, just before the scandal erupted.