Prince Andrew takes money for daughter Princess Beatrice's wedding
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Prince Andrew took a large sum of money from the Turkish thief Selman Turk for the wedding of Princess Beatrice.
Turkish heiress Nebahat Isbilen has sued Selman Turk for £40 million, part of which was also transferred to Andrew.
Mr Turk duped Turkish millionaire Nebahat Ivyap Isbilen to pay Prince Andrew £750,000. Ms Isbilene's money was presented as a wedding present for Princess Beatrice.
"It's a wedding present, a wedding gift", said Amanda Thirsk, the Duke's former private secretary, in the record of a phone call with Mrs Isbilene's private bank.
"Mrs Isbilene is believed to have been paying for assistance in obtaining a passport," The Telegraph reports.
Express.co.uk says she wanted help moving her assets out of Turkey, where her husband is serving a life sentence in prison for his alleged role in the 2016 coup against the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Is."
In addition, £25,000 was paid to the younger daughter Princess on the instructions of the thief.
The paper reports: "York family named in High Court battle to retrieve millions missing from Mr Turk by Mrs Isbilen."
It is alleged that none of the Duke's daughters knew about this transfer.