96th hearing in the IMM 'Corruption' case: The trial of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the defendants continues

The 'Corruption' 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.

Unarrested defendant Mustafa Duhan Demir said, "I am the deputy chairman of the Hakki Demir Foundation. We made a plan modification for the parcel in Kısıklı owned by our family foundation. We applied to the Metropolitan Municipality because the authority authorized to make the Master Development Plan is the Metropolitan Municipality. We agreed with an expert because there were reports to be prepared and processes to be followed. City planner Adem Altıntaş wrote all the plan clarification reports. Our request for plan change from the Metropolitan Municipality was legal." There is nothing contradictory about it. Adem Altıntaş presented the plan disclosure report to the Metropolitan Municipality in May 2021. At that time, the institutions had to submit their opinions to the parliament within 60 days at the latest. Altıntaş said to me some time after the application, 'They want money for the opinions of the institution to be positive.' When we came to July 2021, I said to Altıntaş, 'Which? 'We are at the stage?' I asked, 'They see the job as the AK Party's job, they are dragging their feet.' The procrastination that Adem Altıntaş told me has started to show its effect. The institution's opinions for our application in May were completed in October 2021.