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Riza Sarraf: “I am now with the honorable Minister... Edip: “where are you? Are you at Mr.
Zafer's?”, Riza Sarraf: “no, I'm with honorable Mr. Muammer, our minister... he asked, was he able to
get it, what did he do?... he said let me call”, Edip: “I'll talk to him now”, Riza Sarraf: “We also spoke
to Brother Zafer... he too said it, go talk to him, then come and visit me.”
TK.2360346797 - 10/08/2013 1:53 p.m. Riza Sarraf – Edip conversation:
Riza Sarraf: “bro, I'm sorry, I bothered you... our honorable Minister would like to talk to you”,
(Muammer Guler is also added into the conversation), Muammer Guler: “Mr. Riza is a very valuable
friend of us, our brother”, Edip: “exactly, you're the same. I was meaning to come to you with a matter,
in fact... Let me call Baris, and we'll come at a time you're available.”
TK.2360534533 - 10/08/2013 3:24 p.m. Edip – Riza Sarraf conversation:
Edip: “My dear Riza, he's waiting for us within the next half hour, within half an hour”, Riza
Sarraf: “let me go to the Ministry of Finance directly”, Edip: “half an hour, you can get there within
fifteen minutes, I'm leaving here now... we'll meet at his private secretary’s there.”
It is understood from the conversations that an individual named Edip has intermediated a
meeting between Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and Riza Sarraf. His intermediary duty was
secured by Zafer Caglayan and Muammer Guler.
TK.2360560959 - 10/08/2013 3:36 p.m. Abdullah Happani – Riza Sarraf conversation;
Abdullah Happani: “I had the line canceled bro he got himself a new line, he sent me a
message, saying this is my new number hadji bro... I said, okay bro, I recorded it, we'll talk later, he
said okay bro, I kiss your hands, and that was that in our messaging”, Riza Sarraf: “okay, good, talk to
you later.”
It is understood from the conversations that, in order to show that Riza Sarraf had no relations
with the irregularities claimed in the news story, the phone line used by Adem Gelgec belonging to
Riza Sarraf's company has been canceled off.
TK2360583204 - 10/8/2013 3:47 PM Riza Sarraf – Abdullah Happani conversation:
Riza Sarraf: “I'm gonna ask you that, this Safir, how much export did it do in 2012?”, Abdullah
Happani: “in 2012? Let me find out and get back to you immediately. Let me ask accounting”, Riza
Sarraf: “ask about its profits, and tell me 2013 as well... Message me about 2012 and 2013 right away.”
It is determined from the conversations that Riza Sarraf asked Abdullah Happani about the
real commercial activities of the companies and their profit information, and he planned to advertise it
to Mehmet Simsek.
TK.2360585984 - 10/08/2013 3:48 p.m. Abdullah Happani – Riza Sarraf conversation;
Abdullah Happani: “We're not bad in Volga either, I mean we've closed the third quarter for
example 4.. 4 Million 818 thousand is our profit with Volgam”, Riza Sarraf: “no, that thing, the
export”, Abdullah Happani: “NO EXPORT, THESE ARE ALL FOOD”, Riza Sarraf: “okay, how
much Volgam”, Abdullah Happani: “4 Million 818 thousand profit from the third quarter alone.
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