TRT employee files criminal complaint over FETÖ and tender allegations
TRT employee Mustafa Aşçı applied to the prosecutor's office regarding allegations of irregularities within the institution, while former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç was listed as a suspect.
Mustafa Aşçı, a 27-year-old TRT employee, filed a criminal complaint with the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office requesting the investigation of allegations concerning the FETÖ structure, tenders, and public loss within the institution; former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç was named as a suspect in the petition.
Details of the criminal complaint
Mustafa Aşçı, a 27-year-old TRT employee, filed an official criminal complaint with the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the examination of allegations regarding personnel recruitment, external productions, tenders, and potential public losses carried out within the institution.
Name shown as a suspect
In the detailed petition prepared, Bülent Arınç, who previously served as the state minister and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for TRT, was listed in the capacity of a suspect, and it was requested that the allegations regarding that period be investigated.
Legal accusations raised
The application requested that the allegations of misconduct in office, rigging tenders, embezzlement, forgery of official documents, destruction or concealment of crime evidence, and harboring a criminal be scrutinized.
Allegations of FETÖ/PDY structure
While one of the most significant parts of the criminal complaint consisted of allegations regarding the FETÖ/PDY structure within TRT, it was claimed that past lower-level investigations were not sufficiently deepened.
Financial transactions and external productions
The petition requested the examination of external production contracts, program payments, technological equipment rentals, and direct procurement processes, alongside approximately 300 million liras of payments allegedly transferred to companies under the control of the organization.