The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office had issued detention warrants for 19 suspects regarding allegations of bid-rigging and bribery involving contractors at Esenyurt Municipality.
The suspects, whose procedures at the police station were completed, were referred to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan. After their statements were taken at the prosecutor's office, the suspects were referred to the duty magistrate.
Following the proceedings at the duty magistrate's office, suspects Yusuf Ulutaş (Esenyurt Deputy Mayor), İbrahim Doğancıoğlu (Esenyurt Municipality Parks and Gardens Department staff), Ziya Köklü (partner of the firm Ekim Peyzaj), Salih Yılmaz (owner of the firm ASM), Erhan Toprak (owner of the firm Topraköz), Emrah Koşunalp (employee of the firm ASM), Cemalettin Çağlayan and Harun Berber (employees of Namık Çebi İnşaat), and Doğan Can Göksel were arrested and sent to prison. Suspects Anıl Alioğlu (Esenyurt Municipality Parks and Gardens Department employee), Orhan Yıldırım (owner of Han İnşaat), Tuba Ulutaş Şenyürek, and Halil Yılmaz (owner of the firm HMF) were released under judicial control measures in the form of 'house arrest'.
Suspects Ümit Ünal (former Esenyurt Deputy Mayor and current employee of the Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change), Adil Kesik (Esenyurt Municipality employee), Adnan Şenocak (lawyer), Kamil Karaduman (partner of the firm Simak Makina), Eyüp Mücahit Gülmez (tradesman), and Ziya Seymen (Esenyurt Municipality Head of Mukhtar Affairs) were released by the magistrate with 'signature' and 'international travel ban' measures.
News Source: 12punto
