Indictment filed against Metehan Baltacı and Mert Hakan Yandaş

Indictments have been filed against 34 suspects as part of the 'betting in football' investigation.

In a statement from the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, it was reported that the indictments regarding the suspects captured and arrested during operations conducted as part of the investigations known in the public eye as 'betting and match-fixing in football' have been completed, and separate cases have been filed against each suspect in the competent court.

The statement included the following: 'The meticulous work in line with the determined fight against match-fixing allegations in Turkish football and the crime of illegal betting, which is a festering wound in society, will continue uninterruptedly with operations planned to be carried out from now on.'

The prepared indictment lists referees Erkan Arslan, Nevzat Okat, Yakup Yapıcı, Ahmet Kıvanç Kader, Nurullah Bayram, and Baran Karaman; footballers Kerem Yusuf Sirkeci, Emircan Çiçek, Bartu Kaya, İzzet Furkan Malak, Metehan Baltacı, Yunus Emre Tekoğul, Faruk Can Genç, Kadir Kaan Yurdakul, Orkun Özdemir, Alassane Ndao, Abdurrahman Bayram, Bahattin Berke Demircan, Doğukan Çınar, Eyüpcan Temiz, Furkan Demir, Gökhan Payal, İbrahim Yılmaz, Mustafa Çeçenoğlu, Ergün Nazlı, Hamit Bayraktar, Hüseyin Aybars Tüfekci, İlke Tankul, Mert Aktaş, İsmail Karakaş, Tufan Kelleci, and Mert Hakan Yandaş; as well as Turkish Football Federation official Buğra Cem İmamoğulları and Fenerbahçe Congress Member Ersen Dikmen, who is alleged to have placed bets on behalf of Yandaş, as 'suspects'.

News Source: 12punto