The detained defendant in the case against IMM is Ağaç A.Ş. Deputy General Manager Aytekin Karaarslan rejected the accusation of "tender rigging" and argued that he could not understand why he had been detained for about 5 months and that there was no concrete evidence against him in the file. At the hearing, the prosecutor requested the continued detention of all detained defendants.
The "İmamoğlu profit-oriented criminal organization" investigation against Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was suspended from his post as the Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and arrested, was completed and a 3,809-page indictment was prepared on November 11, 2025. Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is mentioned as the 'organization leader' in the indictment; 'Establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime', 'Bribery', 'Laundering of proceeds of crime', 'Fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations', 'Recording personal data', 'Seizing and disseminating personal data', 'Hiding evidence of crime', 'Obstructing communications', 'Damaging public property', 'Taking bribes', 'Disseminating misleading information to the public', 'Extortion', 'Property resulting from crime' It was claimed that he committed the crimes of "laundering values", "tender rigging", "deliberate pollution of the environment", "opposition to the tax procedure law", "opposition to the forest law" and "opposition to the mining law". It is requested that İmamoğlu be sentenced to imprisonment from 828 years and 2 months to 2,352 years for 142 actions.
'I ASK WHY I AM ARRESTED BUT I CANNOT FIND THE ANSWER'
Arrested defendant Ağaç A.Ş. In his statement, Deputy General Manager Aytekin Karaarslan said, "I was detained at the beginning of May 2026. I have been detained for 5 months. I have been asking myself every night why I have been detained for exactly 150 days, but I could not find the answer. As the deputy general manager of financial affairs, it is my main responsibility and duty to ensure the financial discipline and financial sustainability of the company. In this sense, I think I have carried out my duty successfully and I am sure of it. I am accused of 'tender rigging'. However, this accusation I have not come across any concrete evidence or evidence about this. Estimates, assumptions, possibilities are a really good way to make an opinion, but they are not certainty. No negative statement has been made by any manager, any supplier, any defendant, or any witness in the main indictment or the supplementary indictment. There is only one question about me in both the HTS and MASAK reports. This is a question about the deposit of 202 grams of gold into a bank account in February 2023. "It is our accumulation. After the Maraş earthquake, we decided to invest it in the digital environment," he said.
CONTINUATION OF DETENTION OF THE DEFENDANTS WAS REQUESTED
The prosecutor requested the continued detention of all detained defendants. The hearing was adjourned for the announcement of the interim decision.
