Filenews 3 January 2024
With a land development company in an area of occupied Kyrenia and the well-known British fraudster Gary Robb associates the law firm of Akan Kiursiat who was arrested in Italy, a Turkish Cypriot website in today's publication writing that it is at the request of the father of lawyer Talat Kursiat, The "TRNC presidency", as it is reported, informed the Turkish Foreign Ministry of the arrest and the Turkish Foreign Ministry has now taken action in Italy.
The Turkish Cypriot website "Mikro-makro" writes that the reason for Kiursiat's arrest in Italy may be complaints made by one and/or more British citizens about properties they were going to buy in the occupied areas.
The website recalls that two British citizens, William George and Eleanor Barker René Alcock, who had bought in 2005 a villa in occupied Klepini from the company AGA Developments Ltd, based in Kazafani, and Gary Robb had filed a lawsuit against Talat Kursyat in the "courts" of the pseudo-state and the "supreme" issued a decision on December 24, 2018.
The plaintiffs alleged that the money they had sent to the company's and Rob's lawyer, Talat Kiursiat, for the purchase of the mansion was never transferred to them, but the Turkish Cypriot lawyer kept it in his personal account. On appeal, despite strong insistence by the plaintiffs, the sum of £64,755 was never returned and it was concluded that the money was misappropriated by Talat Kursiat or transferred to his own bank account.
The Turkish Cypriot website adds that despite this court decision, the refund of this amount appears not to have been made and the British plaintiffs made other new complaints to the European Police Agency and Europol, or Gary Robb may have made some revelations to the British police.
British drug dealer Gary Robb began building 335 luxury mansions on Greek Cypriot land in Kyrenia between 2004 and 2005, but not a single one of these homes was finished as he was sentenced to 5 years in prison in England for drug sales in 2009.
In 2011, a European Arrest Warrant was issued against Gary Robb, his extradition was requested and he was extradited to the RoC from the United Kingdom. A court in the Free Territories sentenced Robb to 11 months in prison, but after that time he was extradited back to Britain.
British police estimate that around 400 Britons lost a total of more than €40 million in deals made with AGA Development.
It is alleged that Rob received between £5,000 and £10,000 a week from the drug trade in England and then sent this money to the occupied territories.
The same Turkish Cypriot website writes that Akan Kursiat and his wife – politician Fazilet Ozdenefe, travelled to Italy for New Year's Day via Larnaka and Kiursiat was arrested in Italy on New Year's Eve. It is known, he adds, that Kiursyat travelled to the free areas and that he travelled "from the south to Italy without problem", noting that it is also known that European arrest warrants are valid in all EU member states.
The website notes that the exact reasons for Kiursiat's arrest in Italy are not yet known, why the arrest was made in Italy and not in the free areas, or whether this is related to the cases of this company and Gary Robb.
CNA
