13.06.2026 01:10
In an operation targeting an organized network that caused 3.1 billion TL in public losses by rigging tenders at Ege University, 27 people, including a former chief physician, dean, and general secretary, were arrested and sent to prison.
In an operation against a network found to have caused 3.1 billion lira in public damage by establishing an organized structure at Ege University, 27 of the 47 suspects detained were arrested. Among those sent to prison as part of the corruption investigation coordinated by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office are the university's former chief physician, former dean, and former general secretary, among other top-level administrators of the period.
COURT OF ACCOUNTS REPORTS IN THE FILE: THEY HAD ALMOST FORMED A GANG
Teams from the Izmir Provincial Police Department's Financial Crimes Branch had launched an operation on June 9 following allegations of irregularities in tenders and direct procurement at Ege University. According to evidence in the investigation file and Court of Accounts reports, it was revealed that after 2019, institutional administrators formed an organized criminal structure within the university.
THEY TRANSFERRED OFFICIALS WHO OBJECTED
The details of the investigation revealed what appeared to be a parallel management model. It was determined that the Revolving Fund Management Office was staffed only with personnel who would unconditionally carry out illegal instructions, and that managers of affiliated companies doing business with the university exercised authority like institutional staff. It was understood that honest public officials who refused these unlawful orders were systematically pressured and removed from their units. The public loss resulting from tenders being continuously steered to the same companies without market research was calculated at exactly 3 billion 100 million TL.
FORMER TOP ADMINISTRATORS AND MAJOR COMPANY OWNERS IN PRISON
Of the 47 suspects detained in simultaneous raids, 7 were released after police and prosecutor questioning, and 13 were released under judicial supervision. 27 people, including the university's former senior bureaucrats and owners of companies that secured billion-lira tenders, were arrested after being brought before a judge.
The arrested individuals are as follows:
D.B. (Dean of Ege University Faculty of Medicine and former Chief Physician of the Hospital)
Ö.Ö. (former General Director of the University Hospital)
M.A. (former General Secretary)
H.Z. (former Financial Services Manager of the Purchasing Department)
S.Ö. (Treasury Expert)
In addition to these names, 18 businesspeople, including officials and technical staff working at the hospital (T.B., O.Ö., R.D., M.E.U.) and managers of medical device, construction, IT, and cleaning companies, were also sent behind bars. The investigation by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office into the billion-lira embezzlement continues in multiple directions.