Criminal Law
We stand by you in the most challenging criminal law proceedings to protect your company's corporate reputation, your executives' liberty, and your commercial assets. Our preventive law strategies prevent risks before they arise.
We stand by you in the most challenging criminal law proceedings to protect your company's corporate reputation, your executives' liberty, and your commercial assets. Our preventive law strategies prevent risks before they arise.
Under Article 20 of the TPC, pursuant to the principle of individual criminal responsibility, companies cannot be directly sentenced to imprisonment or judicial fines. However, heavy security measures such as revocation of operating license and confiscation under Article 60 of the TPC can directly affect companies.
Under Article 20 of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC), pursuant to the principle of individual criminal responsibility, companies cannot be directly sentenced to imprisonment or judicial fines. However, this does not mean that companies are completely independent from criminal processes. Heavy security measures such as revocation of operating licenses and confiscation of proceeds of crime under Article 60 of the TPC can directly affect companies.
White-collar crimes are at the center of the most frequently encountered criminal law risks for companies. Crimes such as embezzlement, qualified fraud, forgery, bribery, embezzlement by appropriation, tax evasion, and money laundering can lead to severe criminal sanctions for executives.
Our office swiftly pursues legal remedies against protective measures during the most critical stages of the criminal prosecution process—such as internal company raids, seizure of assets/documents or bank accounts, and appointment of a receiver to company management. Through our corporate compliance programs, we build shields to prevent the commission of crimes.
Our Services
- Personal and corporate defense in white-collar crimes: embezzlement, qualified fraud, bribery, forgery, and money laundering (MASAK investigations)
- Board of directors and executive liability consulting: authority delegation contracts through internal regulations under TComC Articles 367 and 371 and limitation of executives' fault liability
- Representation in criminal lawsuits arising from workplace accidents: defense against charges of causing death or injury by negligence (TPC Art. 85, Art. 89) in fatal or injurious workplace accidents
- Management of objection processes against protective measures: objections to unjust workplace raids, copying of digital data, account seizures, and receiver appointment decisions at the Criminal Court of Peace
- Preventive law and regulatory compliance: corporate ethics rules, anti-bribery and anti-corruption frameworks, establishment of corporate audit systems, and employee training
- Defense against TPC Article 60 security measures: legal remedies against operating license revocation and confiscation decisions
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