Suspects caught red-handed while trying to sell stolen 500-year Persian carpet for 300.000 dollars

Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Command’s Gendarmerie Crime Investigation Team (JASAT) traced an approximately 500 years old silk Persian carpet which stolen on August 2020 in Silivri district of Istanbul, Turkey. The stolen Persian carpet contains compositions from Safavid Dynasty and describes the war between Abbas the Great and Ottoman Empire. As a result of performed precise works, teams reached the information that M.K., T.B. and İ.A. named 3 suspects looking customers for wanted carpet. After all the tracking and works, teams determined that suspects resided in Faith district of Istanbul. Later on JASAT teams hit the button for operation and carried out a bust on the suspects address. In the operation, 3 suspects caught red-handed while trying to sell the Persian carpet. 3 detainees forwarded judicial authorities after their statements were taken.