Details of the betting investigation in football revealed in the prosecutor's referral letter: Millions of dollars in money transfers

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has identified that among those involved are former Adana Demirspor President Murat Sancak, footballers Mert Hakan Yandaş and Metehan Balcı, sports commentator Ahmet Çakar, and referee Zorbay Küçük, who were foundto be involved in football matcheswhere a number ofreferees, footballers, and certain clubofficials were on duty,with the suspects' actionsThe investigation intoallegations of 'betting'is continuing.The details of the investigation

were included in theprosecutor's referral lettersent to theduty magistrate.emerged in the referral letter Thereferral letter states that Mert Hakan Yandaştransferred to suspect Ersen Dikmen on December 4between 2021 and October 26, 2025, a total of 4 million 453 thousand liras, and that Ersen Dikmen sent this money in a shortperiod of time to legal betting sitesand subsequentlysuspect Dikmen also Itwas reported that the suspect sent 2 million 60 thousand liras to Yandaş.The referral letter stated thatDikmen began receiving money transfers from Yandaş starting on December 4, 2021,and thereafter,

he placed bets through legal betting sites on football matches, including those of the Fenerbahçe Sports Club,as well. a large number ofbetting coupons were found, and examinations of Yandaş's digital materials revealed that he was a player for Fenerbahçe football teamand images of coupons indicating that bets were placed on theteam were found,stating that it was determined thatthus, Mert Hakan Yandaş'sIt was recorded that he engaged in actions aimed atinfluencing the results of matches by bettingindependently of the football teamplayed by the suspectErsen Dikmen.METEHAN BALTACI HAD 27 M

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MATCHESSuspect Metehan Baltacı'smembership registration on a legal betting site was identified.stating that he was present, and that during the time Baltacı was a player at Galatasaray Sports Club,he placed bets on 27 matches.The referral letter states that he placed betson his own team to 'win and over 2.5 goals',and that according to the conversation contents from 2024, he was an Eyüpspor player at the time these bets were placed.The investigation continues.during thatperiod, to an individual named Ufuk, 'Urfa Eyüp kg' as a coupon suggestionwas made, it was stated.

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Suspect Murat Sancak, regarding whom the MASAK report was included in the referral letter, conducted between 2017 and thereafter, excluding transactions carried out between his own accounts,a total of 1,157transactions involving money transfers amounting to 1 billion 226 million 831 thousand 677 liras were received, and 8,799 transactions involving money transfers amounting to 1 billion 197 million 469 thousand 550 liras weresent,it was reported that these transactions were identified.

It was noted that Sancak, himself and the Adana Demirspor Clubof which he is a partner, Adana Demirspor Football Inc.and Adana Demirspor Sports Investments and Trade Inc. had very high amountsThe referral letter states that there were money transfer transactions, and that there were manyindividuals who had transaction records related to illegal betting, and that there were money transfers between them. The report noted that high-amountcash transactionsfor which no information or documentation regarding their source could be provided were detected, and that there were high-volumemoney transfers with Metin Korkmaz, who also has an arrest warrant against him,and that in his defense, he could not clearly explaintheit was noted that they could not explain.

In the referral letter, which mentions the football match played between the Ankaraspor and Nazilli Belediyespor men's football teams at the Etimesgut Belediyesi Atatürk Stadiumon April 28, 2024, in the TFF 2nd League White Group, it was stated that the matchcompetitionended in a 0-0 draw, and the match result was 0-0, and the match, mthemoment that could have been the only goal-scoring opportunity of the matchoccurredat the 89th minute and 40th second of the match,wherea Nazilli Belediyespor player was attacking the opponent's goal, and before he could face the goalkeeper, this attack was blocked by Ankaraspor players; after the Nazilli Belediyespor player lost the ball, despite being in close proximity to it, he made no effort toregain possession,and subsequently, the ball was cleared by the Ankaraspor player by passing it to his own teammate outside the penalty area, and after the referee stopped the game, the mthe matchfor both teamswas played bypassing the ball aroundwith the teams not applying pressure on each other, and for the purpose of wasting timemaking back passesto defensive players or the goalkeeper, without any intent to score or attack each other it was stated that they were notaiming to establish superiority.