Erol Evcil

Erol Evcil (born 2 May 1966, Mudanya, Bursa Province ), is a Turkish businessman convicted of money-laundering and ordering a murder. Coming from an olive-growing background, he became known as the "olive king", and founded Zeytinoglu Holding in the late 1980s. In the 1990s he employed many former high-ranking state officials, and won state privatization tenders. and Mehmet Ağar, and had done business with Cavit Çağlar, Korkmaz Yiğit, Orhan Taşanlar and Yavuz Ataç. In 2013 he was sentenced to 15 years for money-laundering.

In 1991 Evcil attempted to obtain a bank loan from Türkiye İş Bankası, but was turned down. After setting up a company with relatives of key bank officials, Evcil's Erev Tekstil company was able to obtain a TL125bn loan. The capital of Evcil's olive products company, Eze Zeytincilik, grew by the same amount on the same day. He had also obtained credit from a dozen other banks and financial institutions, including $75m from Türk Ticaret Bankası. According to Sabah and Radikal, interior minister Sadettin Tantan discovered Evcil was hiding in Bursa, and after some political difficulty moved the Bursa Governor Orhan Taşanlar and the Bursa Chief of Police, Kemal Bayrak, to positions outside Bursa. Only then did he order the new Chief of Police to detain Evcil.

Evcil was charged with ordering the murder of Nesim Malki, and convicted in 2004. In 2013 he was sentenced to 15 years for money-laundering.