Breaking News... Arrest request for referee Yasin Kol in MHK investigation! His statement has emerged...

An arrest has been requested for Süper Lig referee Yasin Kol and Süper Lig assistant referee Göktuğ Hazar Erel, who were detained in the "Referees file" investigation conducted by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Kol and Erel, whose police and prosecution procedures have been completed, were referred to the duty magistrate judge with a request for their arrest.

According to the report by İbrahim Haskoloğlu, Yasin Kol, who was referred for arrest on charges of "match-fixing and incentive bonuses," stated in his testimony that the money inflows and outflows related to him in the MASAK report were not accurate.

Yasin Kol's statement is as follows:

I have been a top-class referee in the Süper Lig for the last 6 years. Not all the matches I have officiated during this time are Süper Lig matches. At the same time, I have been working as a private security guard at KTÜ for 15 years.

I do not have any membership in betting and gambling sites (Nesine, Misli, Birebin, Oley, İddia, Bilyoner, and Tuttur). I have never had one. I do not have any membership in any illegal betting site.

I only know the person named Ferhat GÜNDOĞDU as the MHK president; there is no debt or hostility between us. I only know the person named Ferdi KARADORUK by name; there is no debt or hostility between us. I have never met him face-to-face; in my entire life, we have only spoken on the phone 2 or 3 times.

I know the person named Ahmet ŞAHİN because he is a former deputy chairman of the MHK; there is no debt or hostility between us. We have not spoken at all since he left office.

I know the person named Eren ACAR as someone who used to work in referee affairs. I have no information about the matters mentioned in Eren ACAR's statement above. Furthermore, the claim that "before and after the Alanyaspor-Galatasaray match that Yasin Kol officiated last season, ... Facetime calls were made" is completely baseless. No one called me before or after the match to give me instructions on how to behave in the match. And they cannot.

There is no structure where referees or candidates are followed under teams managed by different people. I have never witnessed such a situation until now.

In determining the referee staff for matches in the Turkish league, the MHK president takes the initiative; about 3 days before derby matches and critical matches, he asks the referee who will officiate the match if we have any suggestions on who we can work more harmoniously with as a referee team and takes our opinion. This practice is also done this way in matches abroad.

Also, this practice is not specific to me; it is applied to all referees who will officiate a derby. As can be understood from the conversations above, I presented the referee friends I get along with well to the MHK president and officiated the matches with his approval. The content of the conversation above consists of this.

In my entire life, I have never had this amount of money or money traffic. I have never had such money other than what I earned by working as a referee and a security guard. This money transfer definitely does not belong to me.

Serkan ÖZLÜ is someone I know from the neighborhood. I sent this money to him upon his request for a loan.

The reason I sent the money is that he asked me for a loan. Serkan sent the money back to me about 1 month after I gave him the money as a loan. I did not know that the person named Serkan ÖZLÜ was a suspect within the scope of Qualified Fraud and Law No. 7258 on the Regulation of Betting and Games of Chance in Football and Other Sports Competitions; I just learned it now.

The person named Onur TOMAK is my lawyer. These are money transfers regarding the compensation he collected from people who insulted me on the internet and sent to me.

I know the individuals named Hüsnü Emre ÇELİMLİ and Emrah ÜNAL because they are active referees. As I explained above, when we eat together during the periods we go to matches together, one person pays the bill, and then the others send this money to the person who paid; this is the reason for the money sent.

The money transfers mentioned above are in no way related to illegal betting. I have never played illegal betting and I have never sent any money to others for them to play. I do not accept the findings made above.

In my entire life, I have never had any relationship with legal or illegal betting. I do not have an account on any platform. About 8-9 months ago, I made an investment of up to 3,200,000 TL in a stock that I remember as ZERGYO on the stock market.

I currently have a loss of 2,000,000 TL on the principal from the investment in question. When buying a house, I bought my house by borrowing from my sister, brother-in-law, and mother. I do not accept the accusations made against me. My words consist of these."

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"I DID NOT BET" HE HAD SAID

Yasin Kol had said in his statement to the police, "I did not play any betting. I only sent money as a loan to a few people I like who asked me for a loan; other than that, I have no account activity."

HOW DID THE INVESTIGATION START?

It was stated that in the investigation carried out by the teams of the Istanbul Police Department Anti-Financial Crimes Branch, under the coordination of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Illegal Betting and Sports Crimes Bureau, there were allegations regarding some suspects concerning the crimes of "torture" and "forgery of official documents."

Open-source research, MASAK and HTS studies, complainant and witness statements, and expert findings were examined in the file. Following these studies, it was evaluated that MHK President Ferhat Gündoğdu and some MHK members, referees, and observers might be connected to the crime.

Within the scope of the investigation, operations were carried out at addresses determined in Istanbul, Ankara, Elazığ, and Manisa; in addition to Ferhat Gündoğdu, TFF Active Referees Association President Ferdi Karadoruk, former TFF Central Referee Board Deputy Chairman Ahmet Şahin, former TFF Central Referee Board Member Yunus Yıldırım, TFF Training and 4th Region Manager Sebahattin Şahin, TFF Referees and Observers Association Istanbul Branch Organization Manager Alican Sağlar, and TFF Referees and Observers Association Istanbul Provincial Referee Board President Emre Kosif were detained.

News Source: 12punto