Turkish president ,Tayyip Erdogan's son Bilal is being investigated for money laundering in Italy after a formal denunciation was filed to the Italian authorities by Turkish businessman Murat Hakan Huzan, a strong opposer of Erdogan's autocratic government and now in exile in France, La Repubblica reported. Bilal Erdogan, 35, is studying for a doctorate program in international relations at John Hopkins University in Bologna, where his arrival in September last year was greeted with polemic.
The laundering case was opened last September in Bologna by Turkish tycoon Huzan, who asked magistrates to investigate large sums of money brought into Italy by Bilal. Sources from groups that oppose Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) government have accused Bilal's transfer to Italy as a ploy to make "vast sums of money" disappear under the guises of a presumed "escape plan." Once an owner of numerous businesses operating in energy, construction, telecommunication and publishing sectors, Huzan claims he himself was victim of a political and judicial illegality by Erdogan and his son after the businesses were confiscated from him following his joining of the Turkish political opposition.
ITALIAN INSIDER
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