Police found 185,000 euros in suspicious Istanbul

istanbul - At Abdulgadir Masharipov, the man who has been arrested for the attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, found during a search of a notepad, rifles and 185,000 in cash. The bombing, which was claimed by IS, were 39 deaths.

It is not clear where the money comes from and where the suspect wanted to use it for, reports Bild. Masharipov comes from Uzbekistan and was born there in 1983. His fingerprints match prints found at the scene of the attack.

On Monday it was announced that he was arrested in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul. The man would have been trained in Afghanistan. Shortly after the massacre shortly after New Year's Day, a video appeared on the Internet in which the accused himself filmed in Istanbul. He'd illegally entered Turkey.

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