47-year-old Gencel plays dress up to get his mother

Şerafettin Gencel, 47, from Balıkesir was captured by the police and is to be charged with fraud on the grounds of cheating officials for two years by putting on women's clothes in an attempt to get the monthly salary of his mother Ümmühan, who died two years ago but her death was not registered, the Doğan news agency reported.

Balıkesir Ziraat Bank's cashier got suspicious when Gencel went to the bank last month and left the bank as soon as he received the salary.

This month, Gencel again went to the bank, as he does every month, in women's clothes. He disguised his face and wore hand gloves. As he waited in the queue, bank officials took a photo of him secretly. Later, bank officials began to stall him, telling him he withdrew quite a lot of money and that he should be careful of thieves.

Soon after, the police arrived and pushed Gencel into a separate room where they posed him a number of questions. “Are you questioning me? What sort of questions are you asking? If you question me, I'll call my lawyer,” Gencel said. Police, who were sure that Gencel was a man, took off his headscarf and then took him to the police station.

In his testimony, Gencel said he buried his mother's body under the basement floor of his house and put on women's clothes to get his mother's salary.

The police searched his house, found his mother's body where he said he had buried it and took it to the Bursa Forensic Morgue for an autopsy to see how the woman died. The police detained Gencel and are investigating the possibility that Gencel may have killed his mother.