
Two men were on Monday handed prison sentences of 45,376 and a half years each in Turkey for operating a ponzi scheme which funnelled part of its earnings through northern Cyprus.
The sentence is the second-longest to have been given in recorded history.
The pair, ringleader Mehmet Aydin and his older brother Fatih Aydin, had founded and operated a scheme called the “Ciftlik Bank”, and had been found guilty of