Türkiye detains 31 more suspects as $20 billion fund probe widens to 217

Prosecutors detained 31 more people over irregular trading in four Borsa Istanbul-listed firms, bringing the fund-crisis investigation to 217 suspects in total, 85 of them remanded in custody. Erdoğan put the cost of the crisis at $20 billion in mid-October; more than 450,000 investors are affected, and fund managers allegedly tried to move money abroad before their assets could be frozen.

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