 The bank's 84.52% stake was taken over by the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund of Turkey (, TMSF) for sale in a public tender.The TMSF requested for tender on May 4, 1998.On May 18, Police of Istanbul applied to the State Security Court () to obtain a permission to eavesdrop businessman Korkmaz Yiğit's mobile phone for the length of one month due to reasonable grounds on his existing ties with and money transfer to organized crime.