Up to 5 years of imprisonment requested for Lütfi Arıboğan in the 'football match-fixing conspiracy' investigation

The investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against Lütfi Arıboğan, the suspect in FETO's "football match-fixing" conspiracy, has been completed.

A prison sentence of 2 years to 6 months to 5 years was requested for Arıboğan for the crime of "knowingly and willingly aiding the FETO armed terrorist organization, although he is not a member of it".

The indictment was sent to Istanbul 25th High Criminal Court for evaluation.

On the other hand, a decision of non-prosecution was given for the suspects who were investigated: Ahmet Gülüm, İlhan Helvacı and Ebru Köksal.

In the indictment, it was stated that Lütfi Arıboğan served as the 1st Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) between 2011 and 2012, and that he carried out sports investigations on behalf of the TFF, which were a reflection of the investigation publicly known as the "2011 Match-fixing Operation in Football" on the federation.

During the period in question, Mehmet Berk, the export prosecutor who was in the media branch of the FETO/PDY terrorist organization, who was involved in media activities in Taraf newspaper, the organization's media organ, which came to the fore by supplying documents to public officials who were members of the organization in investigations carried out irregularly by the organization such as "Ergenekon, Sledgehammer, Match-fixing case" in the past, who was convicted by the Mersin 2nd High Criminal Court for the crime of "being a member of the FETO/PDY terrorist organization", and who also carried out the so-called match-fixing investigation. It was stated that a total of 101 HTS contacts were detected between 13 July 2011 and 6 December 2012 between Mehmet Baransu, who was found to have had 15 contacts with export police chief Mutlu Ekizoğlu and 1 contact.

In the indictment, it was stated that Arıboğan first sent the content with the attachment titled "Police Directorate letter and name list" related to the so-called match-fixing investigation to his personal address from the corporate e-mail address "[email protected]" on December 4, 2011, and then sent it along with the attached file named "magicolor..pdf" to the e-mail address used by Baransu on December 7, 2011.

Source: TRT Haber Açık RSS (Gündem) (Open Press / Translated Full Text)