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A court in Istanbul has declared Turkish technology retailer Bimeks bankrupt, local media have reported.
Bimeks, launched in 1989 as a humble shop by the brothers Murat Akgiray and Vedat Akgiray, is a “truly Turkish” story of the rise and fall of a company amid Turkey’s erratic and often shifty capital markets.
Twelve years ago, on March 4, 2009, Vedat Akgiray transferred his Bimeks shares to his brother Murat Akgiray. Just over a week later, on March 13, 2009, Vedat Akgiray became the head of Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (SPK).
As the SPK head, Vedat Akgiray launched a campaign for initial public offerings (IPOs). Many companies that were put in the spotlight by that campaign later went bankrupt.
Bimeks itself was listed on the Borsa Istanbul in 2011.
Vedat Akgiray is the only SPK head to have ever been dismissed before fulfilling his five-year term. He lost the post in 2012.
In 2019, Bimeks applied for bankruptcy protection, known as “concordato” in Turkey. Its application came amid a concordato rush in the country following the August 2018 Turkish lira crisis.
In March 2019, Bimeks was delisted.
Vedat Akgiray nowadays still works at Bogazici University in Istanbul as a professor of finance.
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