Özgür Özel said 'MASAK is under Mehmet Şimşek', the response came: 'The involvement of management authorities...'

The Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) stated, "The reports prepared are submitted directly to the requesting authority without being presented to the knowledge or approval of any office other than the Presidency."

The written statement issued by the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) included the following:

"For this reason, it is not possible to speak of the process being carried out solely under the initiative and responsibility of the assistant expert who prepared the report.

MASAK's analysis and examination work is carried out entirely as a technical process within the framework of legislation, as required by the nature of the duty, and the reports prepared are submitted directly to the requesting authority without being presented to the knowledge or approval of any office other than the Presidency.

There is no question of any involvement of the Ministry's management authorities in this process. Regarding the current issue, 3 of the 7 separate reports prepared by MASAK and submitted to judicial authorities were prepared by the authorized assistant expert, and the others were prepared with dual signatures by the expert and the authorized assistant expert."

WHAT DID ÖZGÜR ÖZEL SAY?

Republican People's Party leader Özgür Özel had said the following:

“Mehmet Şimşek, you are not outside of this coup attempt; you are inside it, you are one of its apparatuses. To anyone in the world who considers this Mehmet Şimşek a good economist, if anyone tries to hire him in London or anywhere else after his term ends, I tell them all: there is a MASAK report that was said to exist for 3 months but didn't, which was requested 10 days before the coup attempt and arrived 2 days before; that MASAK is under Mehmet Şimşek, it is an institution managed by Mehmet Şimşek. He has made his institution a tool for this disgrace. This man has no credibility as an economist or as a person. Let the world know him as such.

Let the world know Mehmet Şimşek as the head of an institution that produces false reports for a false case, capable of sacrificing a country's economy for one person's fears. This is who Mehmet Şimşek is. No one should consider him a man, an economist, or someone who truly knows these matters. If you put him at the head of a company tomorrow, he will fear someone, he will take orders from someone. He will burn you, he will burn everything. This Mehmet Şimşek's reputation is now in the gutter. The whole world is talking about what this Mehmet Şimşek has done, what MASAK has done, and the political coup attempt against Ekrem İmamoğlu.”