Queen Elizabeth's beloved son is swirling in a new scandal, Prince Andrew, who in February reached an out-of-court settlement with American Virginia Roberts-Jewfre, who was determined to drag the British blue blood to justice for his sexual abuse of her while she was a minor. However, 62-year-old Andrew's involvement in the Epfstein scandal seems to have left 95-year-old Elizabeth's second son out of the loop, as it became known to the British and Turkish press on Friday that the Duke of York was involved in a new scandal involving a 77-year-old Turkish millionaire victim.
On November 15, 2019, 77-year-old Nebahat Isbielen deposited 750,000 British pounds in a bank account of the British prince with the expectation that he would help her obtain a British passport. Nebahat Isbillen is the wife of Ilhan Isbillen, a businessman and former politician with Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), but who resigned from the party in 2014 and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2015 on charges of belonging to the FETO network of the self-exiled US imam Fethullah Gulen.
But in March 2021, the 77-year-old filed a claim in London's High Court against 35-year-old businessman Shelman Turk, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, who was her financial adviser and, according to her, deceived her when he advised her to deposit £750.000 into Andrew's account so that the British prince could help with the procedures for obtaining a passport in the United Kingdom.
Prince Andrew was forced to return the money without explaining the reason for the deposit
Nebahat Isbielen owns a large movable and immovable property and wished to go to Britain as soon as possible and transfer her money to the country as she feared that as long as she remained in Turkey she would suffer the same fate as her husband. According to her, after transferring the money to the prince's bank account, she found that what her financial adviser had promised her was not true and accused him of fraud. Although the 77-year-old has not taken legal action against the British royal, her lawyers contacted him 16 months after their client deposited the money. According to reports in the British press, Andrew returned the full amount back without, however, giving any explanation as to why the deposit was made into his bank account.
On November 14, 2019, according to the Daily Mail, the 77-year-old's bankers called the prince's former secretary, Amanda Thirsk (removed when Andrew lost his royal privileges after being implicated in the Epstein scandal) and asked her why their client was transferring the £750,000 into the prince's account. Thirsk replied that it was a wedding gift to Princess Beatrice, Andrew's eldest daughter, who married Italian-born real estate tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Moggi in July 2020 in Windsor.
On Friday, it was revealed that Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, also received the £225.000 pounds from Shelman Turk while in the lawsuit filed against her former financial advisor, Nebahat Isbielen accuses him of deceiving her and taking a total of 40 million pounds from her while convincing her to deposit 750.000 pounds to Prince Andrew, to give 225,000 pounds to his ex-wife and to his youngest daughter, Princess Eugenia, he persuaded her to make a "gift" of 25,000 pounds with 15,000 of it being a birthday present for Eugenia! The 77-year-old testified that she travelled to London and sought the help of the 35-year-old, a former banker and friend of Prince Andrew, to secure a British passport and to get her money out of Turkey. Her deposits are estimated at $90 million.
The businessman, accused of fraud, resides in a property owned by the Queen!
For his part, 35-year-old Selman Turk said the 77-year-old millionaire deposited the money into the British prince's account on her own initiative and denies he defrauded her. In fact, he claims that Isbielen, who had met the Yorks on an earlier trip to Turkey, hoped they would help her jailed husband. It is surprising that the former banker, according to court documents that have come to light, is living in a property owned by Queen Elizabeth. Also, a few days before depositing the £750,000 with the Duke of York, Andrew had honoured the former banker at an awards event for the best businessmen at St James's Palace in London.
Prince Andrew returned the £750,000 after the 77-year-old's lawyers contacted him, but it remains unknown whether the money received by his ex-wife and two daughters will be returned to its owner.
A spokesman for Prince Andrew, asked about the matter by reporters, replied tersely: "We are not in a position to comment on legal proceedings that are ongoing."
Prince Andrew, following his involvement in the Epstein scandal, had been removed from official royal duties with Princes Charles and William having indicated that they wished him to remain in the "shadows" and make no public appearances. However, on March 29 Andrew surprised everyone unpleasantly when he accompanied 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth to Westminster Abbey for Prince Philip's memorial service. In fact, Elizabeth's beloved son not only sat in the front row with prominent members of the royal family, but it was he who escorted his mother back to Windsor Castle after the ceremony. Although Charles and William are unhappy with Andrew's reappearance in the limelight there seems to be nothing they can do about it and the monarch, despite her mobility problems, still has the final say in palace decisions. So it will come as no surprise if the Duke of York is present at the celebrations for Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, scheduled for next June.
Source: Proto Thema
Contents of this article including associated images are belongs Cyprus Times
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or Cyprus Times
Source
