Turkish referee boss Ferhat Gündoğdu in custody

The Turkish chairman of the referee commission, Ferhat Gündoğdu, has been taken into custody by a court as part of a corruption investigation.

Gündoğdu and six other people were brought before a judge on suspicion of manipulation, the state news agency Anadolu reported. The court ordered pre-trial detention for five of them and granted the other two conditional release, it said.

Gündoğdu is the chairman of the Turkish Football Association's central referee committee MHK. He and the others were taken into custody on Tuesday during raids in four provinces.

It's about "allegations of interference in the creation of the referee rankings, in the assignments, the evaluation and appointment procedures as well as the rule checks," wrote Justice Minister Akin Gürlek on X.