Crime pays in Turkey. That is apparently the lesson former Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan — who was sacked in April after selling anti-COVID-19 sanitizer produced by a company she owns jointly with her husband to the ministry she was running — deduced from the affair.
A video shared by Turkish investigative journalist Ismail Saymaz today showed a man and a woman alleged to be Pekcan’s chauffeur and her secretary pouring bottles of the disinfectant through a sieve to catch particles of fungus that had formed in the yellowish liquid. The apparent purpose was to sanitize the sanitizer before rebottling it for sale.
