"Suspicious death in the Newborn Gang investigation."

In the investigation of the Newborn Gang, Satılmış Çim, the warehouse manager working at the closed Avcılar Hospital, was being sought with a missing person notice. It was learned that Çim also served as the assistant to the chief physician and was found dead in his car along the E5 highway. According to Alp Kılınç, it was reported that Çim committed suicide due to financial difficulties.

On the other hand, no doctors, nurses, cleaning, or security personnel remained at Avcılar Hospital, where Çim worked and a trustee will be appointed. It was reported that only human resources, accounting, and parking staff were present in the hospital.

FROM THE INDICTMENT

In the 1399-page indictment prepared by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, it is stated that the defendant doctor Fırat Sarı is the leader of the criminal organization, and the management of the organization is carried out by the defendant doctor İlker Gönen and 112 Emergency Call Center ambulance driver Gıyasettin Mert Özdemir.

The indictment notes that the main purpose of the criminal organization is to eliminate the 112 dispatch system of the neonatal intensive care units they took over and to ensure their occupancy, manipulate the patients' levels, and receive maximum payments from the Social Security Institution (SGK).

It is stated in the indictment that the condition of the infant patients was misrepresented as more severe than it actually was, and their hospital stays were prolonged unnecessarily, resulting in high fees being collected from SGK and excess payments being taken from some patients' relatives.

Instead of transferring infant patients to hospitals that would provide appropriate healthcare services, the indictment reports that they were admitted to hospitals chosen by the suspects, which appeared profitable for the organization, and that most of the profits were shared with the defendant members of the organization who are healthcare workers.

The indictment states that the main goal was not to improve the health status of the infants but to obtain the maximum financial gain.

REQUESTS FOR PUNISHMENT

In the indictment, a total of 177 years and 6 months to 582 years and 9 months of imprisonment is requested for defendants Fırat Sarı and İlker Gönen for "manslaughter by negligence" due to the deaths of 10 infants, "qualified fraud," and "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime," with 10 counts for the first two charges and 11 counts for "forgery in official documents."

Defendant Gıyasettin Mert Özdemir is requested to be sentenced to imprisonment of 180 years to 589 years and 9 months for "manslaughter by negligence," "unlawful acquisition of personal data," "fraud to the detriment of public institutions and organizations," "establishing an organization for the purpose of committing a crime," and "forgery in official documents." Similar prison sentences are also anticipated for 44 defendants, 8 of whom are women.

The indictment requests that security measures specific to legal entities be applied to the responsible hospitals and companies that committed the crime of "fraud," including their closure and confiscation of their assets.

As part of the investigation, the licenses of 9 hospitals in Istanbul and 1 hospital in Tekirdağ Çorlu have been revoked, and the infants and patients receiving treatment in these hospitals were transferred to public hospitals by ambulances.

Additionally, those who threatened Y.E., the public prosecutor conducting the investigation into the newborn gang, with death in his office have also been arrested.