
The 81st hearing of the case with 414 defendants, including the elected IMM President Ekrem İmamoğlu, continued in Silivri.
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Many defendants are being tried in the indictment prepared against the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
The IMM trial with 414 defendants, 51 of whom are detained, including the elected Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, continues on its 81st day in the new courtroom of the Marmara Closed Prison in Silivri.
The hearing, which started at 11.30 yesterday morning, ended at 22.00 in the evening, with 27 people making a defense, leaving 156 people who did not make a defense out of the list of 325 undetained defendants.
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Here is what happened moment by moment in Silivri...
11.35 | THE HEARING HAS STARTED
After the detained defendants were brought to the courtroom, the hearing began.
It started with the defense of Selçuk Alanyurt, who served as the Advertising and Inspection Police Chief at the European Side Police Department.
FROM THE INDICTMENT
In the indictment prepared by the Organized Crimes Investigation Bureau of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the Civil Inspection Board Presidency is listed as the "informer", the Ministries of Treasury and Finance, Internal Affairs, Energy and Natural Resources, Agriculture and Forestry, the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the Şişli Municipality are listed as the "damaged by the crime".
In the indictment, there are a total of 407 people as "defendants", including 16 "complainants", 7 fugitives, and 5 "complainants-defendants".
In the "organization chart" in the indictment, it is stated that Ekrem İmamoğlu is the "organization leader" and the defendants Murat Ongun, Fatih Keleş, Adem Soytekin, Ertan Yıldız, Hüseyin Gün and Murat Gülibrahimoğlu are the "organization managers".
In the diagram, it is claimed that 10 organization members are directly affiliated with Ekrem İmamoğlu, and 77 of the organization members are affiliated with Fatih Keleş, 35 with Murat Ongun, 8 with Ertan Yıldız, 7 with Hüseyin Gün, 6 with Murat Gülibrahimoğlu and 6 with Adem Soytekin.
In the indictment, Ekrem İmamoğlu was accused of "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime", "recording personal data", "seizing and disseminating personal data", "concealing evidence of crime", "obstructing communication", "damaging public property", "bribery", "publicly disseminating misleading information", "extortion", "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations", "laundering assets resulting from crime", "tendering". It is requested that he be sentenced to imprisonment for a total of 849 years to 2,430 years and 6 months for the crimes of "sedition", "deliberate pollution of the environment", "opposition to the Tax Procedure Law", "opposition to the Forest Law" and "opposition to the Mining Law".
In the indictment, Keleş was accused of "bribery" 48 times, "taking a bribe", "giving a bribe", 55 times "tender rigging", 39 times "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations", 8 times "laundering proceeds of crime", "opposition to the Mining Law", "opposition to the Forest Law", "causing environmental pollution", "opposition to the Tax Procedure Law", It is requested that he be sentenced to imprisonment from 556 years and 8 months to 1542 years and 8 months for the crimes of "extortion", "destroying, concealing or altering criminal evidence" and "obstruction of communication".
In the indictment, which demands that Ongun be sentenced to imprisonment from 287 years and 6 months to 779 years and 6 months for the crimes of "bribery", 53 times "tender rigging", 33 times "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations", "giving personal data to others, disseminating or seizing personal data", "publicly disseminating misleading information" and "laundering the proceeds of crime", Yıldız is accused of "bribery", "tender bidding". A prison sentence of 86 to 251 years is foreseen for the crimes of "sedition" and "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations".
In the indictment, it was requested that Soytekin be sentenced to imprisonment from 67 to 194 years for the crimes of "bribery", "chain bribery", "extortion" and "laundering of proceeds of crime", while Gülibrahimoğlu was charged with "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations", "laundering of proceeds of crime", "forgery of documents", "opposition to the Mining Law", "opposition to the Forest Law", "environment He is asked to be sentenced to imprisonment from 19 years and 6 months to 51 years for the crimes of "causing pollution" and "violating the Tax Procedure Law".
In the indictment demanding Gün's imprisonment from 20 to 40 years for the crimes of "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime" and "giving personal data to someone else, disseminating or seizing", it is stated that these defendants, who are the managers of the organization, should be punished separately as perpetrators for all crimes committed within the framework of the activities of their affiliated structures of the organization.
The indictment requests the application of "effective regret" provisions against Adem Soytekin, Hüseyin Gün and Ertan Yıldız.
In the indictment demanding a prison sentence of 35 to 91 years in total for Şişli Mayor Resul Emrah Şahan, who was suspended from his duty after his arrest, for the crimes of "taking bribe" 5 times, "extortion" 2 times, "illegal recording of personal data", "illegal giving or obtaining of personal data" and "being a member of an organization established for the purpose of committing a crime", Beylikdüzü Mayor Mehmet Murat, who was suspended from his duty after his arrest. It is requested that Çalık be sentenced to a total of 30 to 88 years in prison for 7 counts of "taking bribes" and "being a member of an organization established for the purpose of committing crimes".
COMBINED FILE
The indictment prepared against 7 people, including İnan Güney, who was suspended from his post as Beyoğlu Mayor, was also combined with this case.

Necati Şaşmaz rejected the accusations, stating that the FETO-related allegations on social media and the allegations that President Erdoğan was given a message with a tombstone were slander.

In the Gülistan Doku investigation carried out by the Erzurum Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 4 suspects who were referred to the courthouse on the allegation of tampering with evidence were arrested, and 1 person was released under judicial control.
Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek announced that in the investigation into allegations of price manipulation and unfair profits in the fresh fruit and vegetable market, detention orders were issued for 41 suspects and searches were carried out at 109 addresses in 22 provinces.
Urgent expropriation cases that will determine the future of the living spaces around Akbelen Forest in Muğla Milas will be heard tomorrow in the 6th Chamber of the Council of State. EGEÇEP emphasized that the reasons for expropriation were not confirmed by technical reports.

In the Gülistan Doku investigation, 4 of the 5 suspects who were referred to the courthouse in the operation carried out by the Erzurum Chief Public Prosecutor's Office were arrested.

Istanbul Bar Association President İbrahim Kaboğlu stated that the hearings lasting until 22.00 at night in the IMM Case violated the right to a fair trial and requested the sessions to end at 19.30.