04.03.2025 16:20
New details continue to emerge regarding the investigation into Beykoz Municipality. It has been determined that the municipality conducted a fictitious fruit and vegetable tender worth 13 million 780 thousand 922 TL between December 16, 2024, and December 21, 2024. A truck identified as a fuel tanker was disguised as a "food shipment." It was established in the PTS records that the mentioned vehicle never visited Beykoz.
In an investigation against Beykoz Municipality, it was revealed that the municipality used a fuel tanker allegedly transporting vegetables and legumes. It was determined that this tanker, which was found not to have entered the district boundaries at all and was incapable of transporting vegetables, was invoiced for 1 million 470 thousand TL.
FAKE INVOICES WERE ISSUED
Beykoz Municipality Support Services Directorate announced a tender for "Various Food Purchases for Use in Restaurants" on November 28, 2024. While the tender was set at 18 million 811 thousand 278 TL, it was awarded to "Mali Gıda ve İnşaat Sanayi Ticaret Limited Şirketi" for 13 million 780 thousand 922 TL. Invoices were issued on December 17, 2024, one day after the contract was signed, indicating that the first shipment had been made.
NEVER ENTERED BEYKOZ BOUNDARIES
It was revealed that the vehicle mentioned in the invoice, which was stated to be used for the shipment of products such as oranges, onions, zucchini, carrots, green onions, mint, parsley, and celery stalks, was actually a fuel tanker carrying "hazardous materials." Additionally, upon examining the PTS records of the vehicle, it was understood that it had never been within the boundaries of Beykoz on the delivery date specified in the invoice.
INVOICE EXISTS BUT NO PRODUCTS WERE SHIPPED
As a result of the investigations, it was determined that although there was an invoice indicating that a shipment was made to Beykoz Municipality, there were no products that had been shipped. Moreover, the vehicle stated to be used in the vegetable and legume tender turned out to be a fuel tanker. The whereabouts of the 1 million 470 thousand 291 TL and the fate of the money obtained through fictitious tenders and fake invoices remain unknown.
HOW DID YOU TRANSPORT FOOD WITH A TANKER?
During his interrogation at the police and prosecutor's office, Mayor Alaattin Köseler was asked about the tenders related to the municipality one by one. One of the tenders was for food purchases made from a company named Mali Gıda for the Beykoz Municipality Economic and Social Facilities. According to the invoices, a total of 1 million 470 thousand 291 TL worth of materials, including fresh fruits and vegetables, was transported and delivered to the municipality on December 17, 2024, at 09:30 with a truck bearing the license plate 34 UG 6784. The investigation revealed that this truck was actually a fuel tanker and had "Hazardous Materials" written on it. Furthermore, according to the License Plate Recognition System (PTS) records, no vehicle with that license plate had entered the boundaries of Beykoz on the day the delivery was said to have been made.
TENDER TO FIRMS IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER
In the dispatch letter written by the prosecutor to the court requesting the arrest of Köseler, it was stated that in many purchases of goods and services made by different directorates within the Beykoz Municipality, rotational offers were received from the same firms that were in contact with each other, and to influence the tender process, jobs with the same subject were divided to stay below certain legal limits, and tenders were awarded to the same contractors in close dates, with similar firms receiving side offers. It was claimed that there were organic ties at the address and partnership level between some tender contractors, firms, and other firms submitting offers. The letter expressed that the tender contractor firm had learned the approximate cost of the tender from the municipal administration in advance, and that such situations, which violate the principles of transparency, equal treatment, competition, accuracy, and confidentiality in tenders, hindered the highest level of participation in the tender and prevented the tender from being conducted under the most favorable conditions for the public interest. It was noted that the mayor had the responsibility for information, instruction, supervision, prevention, and control during the tender process.