hayatına karşılık

06:40 Aug 31, 2015 

You are right, Yusef, that in the original statement by the bank employee it would have said "hayatıma karşılık" if it was to save his own life, but here the original statement is reported in another report, and "hayatına" could be the life of either of the two people.

19:03 Aug 30, 2015 

Kagano's expication is right. Anyway to save his own life would "hayatıma karşılık"

13:10 Aug 30, 2015 

Banks in Turkey don't hire hit men to kill staff who commit fraud, do they? If so, a lot has changed since I left Turkey in 1999!

11:34 Aug 30, 2015 

"To save his (friend's) life" sounds good. Let me play devil's advocate, though :

Maybe the bank employee risked his life by embezzling money from the bank :)

11:07 Aug 30, 2015 

Since we do not know who the third persons (üçüncü kişiler) are, I am just speculating that the forenamed (adı geçen) probably first borrowed money from loan sharks who usually work with mafia-like debt collectors. And such men tend to threaten their debtors' life for timely payment. There the phrase here "borcuna istinaden and hayatına karşılık" should be translated as "to pay off his debt and thus to save his life." Especially the part "hayatına karşılık" was probably added into the sentence to enhance the urgency and to justify the embezzlement by reiterating that it was done to save his/forenamed person's life.

08:25 Aug 30, 2015 

This excuse may be untrue and only for mitigating the penalty he will be imposed by the court. Anyway, the expression implies that the third party is under threat due to his debts.

06:10 Aug 30, 2015 

Or does this mean that the money was to pay debts owed by his friend to third parties, and he paid the money back in return for his life, i.e. the creditors were threatening to kill him if he didn't pay? I don't think it is very clearly worded.