Police officers in Esenyurt protected an armed gang against Fly Butik Residence victims!

A new detail has emerged in the Fly Butik Residence victimization case. It has been revealed that Commissioner Hüseyin Coşkun, during his time as the Esenyurt Public Order Bureau Chief, protected an armed gang that defrauded hundreds of people, along with police officer Mevlüt Kerpiç.

The housing project named Fly Butik Residence, built by Uçarlar Yapı Gayrimenkul Şirketi, owned by Metin Uçar in Esenyurt, was occupied by an armed fraud gang two years ago. The gang did not allow the apartment owners to enter the housing project they occupied. Citizens who paid hundreds of thousands of liras became victims because they could not take possession of their homes. It was stated that the gang sold the 212 residences in the project to 800 people. In other words, one apartment was sold to approximately 3-4 people. It is estimated that a 300 million TL swindle was carried out in this way.

86 SUSPECTS IN FOUR OPERATIONS

According to the report by İsmail Arı from BirGün, following the news brought to the agenda on March 26 with the headline "The construction gang is not being touched," also sourced from BirGün, the Istanbul Police Department carried out four separate operations against the construction gang that had not been touched for two years. New details that will spark controversy have emerged regarding the gang, whose dozens of members were detained and arrested. The 590-page indictment prepared by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office Organized Crime Investigation Bureau includes 86 suspects, most of whom are under arrest.

ALLEGATIONS OF EVERY TYPE OF CRIME!

The indictment states that the suspects named Nihat Akyüz, Çetin Şimşek, Abulsemet Kızılağaç, Mehmet Özçelik, and Fatih Dere were the leaders of the organization.

Lawsuits were filed against the gang leaders and managers for crimes including "fraud by persons who are merchants or company managers or acting on behalf of a company, or by cooperative managers within the scope of cooperative activities," "qualified robbery," "qualified theft," "violation of residential immunity," "damage to property," "threat with a weapon," "breach of trust," "assault," "assault with a weapon," "threat using the name of a criminal organization," "insult," "disturbing the peace and tranquility of persons," "destruction, concealment, or alteration of evidence of a crime," "purchasing, carrying, or possessing unlicensed firearms and ammunition," and "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime."

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS IN THIS COMPLEX"

Hüseyin Coşkun, who was the Public Order Bureau Chief until May 4 and was later appointed to the Başakşehir Police Station, was detained while in this position. The indictment describes how Coşkun was part of the armed gang and protected the gang by abusing his duty as follows:

“Coşkun, who served as a commissioner at the Esenyurt District Police Department Public Order Bureau between April 14, 2022, and May 4, 2023, went to the scene as an officer while the complainants of the file were trying to enter the FLY Butik complex to seek their rights after the first operation against the organization. It is understood that he said to the complainants, ‘What are you doing here, who are you, you have no rights in this complex,’ and after removing the complainants from the complex, he let the organization members Engin Aslan, Murat Doğan, and Şaban Akdoğan back into the complex, and then said to the organization members in the complex, ‘you will file a complaint against them by saying these people threatened us with weapons and tried to enter the complex by force,’ and then took some of the file complainants to the Osmangazi Police Station with the patrol car.”

UNLICENSED WEAPON FOUND

“During the search of Coşkun's office at the police station, one unlicensed pistol, two magazines, and a total of 22 live cartridges were seized. It is understood that although the suspect was not included in the organization's hierarchy, he assisted the organization and committed the crime of extortion.”

In his statement, Coşkun denied the accusations and claimed that he had “no knowledge” of the unlicensed weapon found in the drawer of his office and that “it did not belong to him.”

PARTICIPATED IN MONEY COLLECTION ACTIVITIES

Hüseyin Coşkun is not the only one who helped the gang. The indictment describes how police officer Mevlüt Kerpiç was also among the important names of the gang as follows:

“The suspect police officer carried out activities on behalf of the organization in order to continue the organization's activities after the operations carried out against the organization. In the statements taken, it was stated that Mevlüt Kerpiç organized the residents of the complex to submit petitions for the release of the arrested individuals and participated in illegal money collection activities. It is understood that police officer Mevlüt Kerpiç committed the act of fraud by participating in illegal money collection activities and was identified by many file complainants as a person acting on behalf of the organization.”

Commissioner Coşkun and police officer Kerpiç were arrested and sent to prison during the operations against the gang.

TITLE DEED AND NOTARY CONNECTION

The indictment states that the gang specifically defrauded foreign nationals. It is stated that “because foreigners who are not citizens of Turkey are not familiar with the country's administrative and judicial legal systems,” they were the primary target of the gang. Furthermore, the indictment, which also mentions the gang's connections at the title deed office and notary, stated: “Regarding the gang's notary connections, the general center of operations was the Büyükçekmece 20th Notary Public, many complainants filed complaints against Notary Ayhan Gültekin and Chief Clerk Fikriye Çağla Öztürk, and as a result of the operation carried out within the scope of the investigation, it was determined that Fikriye Çağla Öztürk had contact with organization managers Mehmet Özçelik and Fatih Dere and organization member Kenan Doğanay, and bank receipts were detected indicating that money transfers were made to Fikriye Çağla Öztürk.”

News Source: 12punto