Turkey seeks up to 39 years for 57 suspects in Paymix iGaming payment case

Prosecutors say Maltese payment infrastructure provider Fincrypto UAB, operating as Paymix, handled payments for gambling platforms banned in Turkey. According to the indictment, funds moved through payment organizations before being converted into cryptocurrency and sent to wallets abroad.

The case’s central figure is Burak Baseli, founder of the international holding Basel Holding. Prosecutors are seeking up to 39 years in prison for him on charges including forming a criminal organization, money laundering, and facilitating banned platforms. The remaining defendants face sentences ranging from 6 to 22 years. That gap — 39 years for the alleged organizer versus 6 to 22 for the rest — mirrors a sentencing structure seen in other Turkish iGaming payment cases this year: the harshest penalties are reserved for whoever allegedly built and ran the infrastructure, not just the people who touched individual transactions.

Case files document 56 gambling platforms, roughly 14 million registered gaming accounts, and databases containing 3 million Turkish national ID numbers and 8 million phone numbers. Fourteen million accounts is a notable figure on its own — roughly one in every six people in Turkey — though the total almost certainly includes duplicate signups and inactive accounts rather than fourteen million distinct active users.

Investigators also reported finding more than 500 physical and virtual servers, around 800 VPN accounts, over 600 remote-access devices, and dozens of admin panels that prosecutors say were used to manage the platforms, user accounts, and payment operations. That volume of infrastructure — hundreds of servers and VPN accounts rather than a handful — points to an operation built specifically to distribute its footprint across jurisdictions and make any single takedown incomplete.

This is the third major case this year tying Turkish payment infrastructure to banned iGaming platforms, following the PEKINBET arrests and the ongoing Papara prosecution — a pattern of Turkish authorities working backward from the platforms themselves to the payment rails that keep them running.