08.12.2025 22:40
As part of the investigation into 'Betting' and 'Match-Fixing' in football conducted by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 39 suspects were sent to the courthouse after undergoing health checks. The dispatch documents prepared for the suspects Mert Hakan Yandaş, Metehan Baltacı, Murat Sancak, and Emrah Çelik have emerged.
39 suspects, including football players, club officials, and referees, who were detained as part of the 'Betting' and 'Match-Fixing' investigation conducted by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, were referred to the courthouse after a health check. Among the suspects, 29 people, including Metehan Baltacı, Murat Sancak, Alassane Ndao, Mert Hakan Yandaş, Ahmet Okatan, Mehmet Emin Katipoğlu, and Ümit Kaya, were referred to the Duty Magistrate's Court with a request for arrest.
REFERRAL DOCUMENTS REVEALED Meanwhile, 10 suspects were referred to the Magistrate's Court with a request for judicial control. The referral documents prepared for suspects Mert Hakan Yandaş, Metehan Baltacı, Murat Sancak, and Emrah Çelik have emerged.
A LARGE NUMBER OF BETTING COUPONS FOUND, INCLUDING FENERBAHÇE MATCHES Mert Hakan Yandaş, the captain of the Fenerbahçe Sports Club football team, transferred a total of 4 million 453 thousand 62 lira between December 4, 2021, and October 26, 2025, to the suspect Ersen Dikmen, who sent the amounts received from Yandaş to legal betting sites shortly after. It was noted that the suspect Ersen Dikmen sent a total of 2 million 60 thousand 74 lira to Mert Hakan Yandaş, and that there were numerous betting coupons, including Fenerbahçe Sports Club's football matches, found through legal betting sites after December 4, 2021, the date when Dikmen started receiving money transfers from Yandaş. It was determined that there were coupon visuals indicating that bets were placed on the Fenerbahçe football team, of which Yandaş is a player, in the digital materials examined, and it was evaluated that Yandaş engaged in actions aimed at influencing match results by betting independently of the football team he played for through the suspect Dikmen.
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT HE PLACED BETS AS 'HIS TEAM WINS AND OVER 2.5 GOALS' It was reported that Metehan Baltacı, a Galatasaray football player, had a membership record on the legal betting site called Nesine, and during the period he was a player at Galatasaray Sports Club, he placed bets on 27 matches. The suspect placed bets in the form of 'his team wins and over 2.5 goals', and in the digital materials examined, it was found that there was a betting coupon image believed to be obtained from the illegal betting site called Vevobahis in messages dated 2021. In the conversation contents from 2024, it was detected that during his time as a player for Eyüpspor, he suggested a coupon to a person named Ufuk with the message 'Urfa Eyüp kg' and that messages related to betting were found. Additionally, it was noted that he logged into illegal betting sites named 'Tipo90', 'Totobo', and 'Holiganbet' with a username and password, and that he engaged in actions aimed at influencing the outcome of matches by placing individual bets for personal gain, independent of the football team he played for.
HIGH AMOUNTS OF MONEY TRANSFERS DETECTED In the MASAK report prepared about former Adana Demirspor President Murat Sancak, it was stated that, excluding transactions he made between his own accounts after 2017, there were a total of 1 billion 226 million TL worth of money transfers received in 1,157 transactions and 1 billion 197 million TL worth of money transfers sent in 8,799 transactions. It was noted that there were very high-value money transfer transactions between him and the companies he is a partner of, and Adana Demirspor Club, Adana Demirspor Football Inc., and Adana Demirspor Sports Investments and Trade Inc. Additionally, it was reported that there were many individuals with transaction records related to illegal betting, and high-value cash transactions for which no information or documents regarding their source could be provided were detected. It was also mentioned that there were high amounts of money transfers with Metin Korkmaz, who has an arrest warrant against him.
A LARGE NUMBER OF BETTING DATA DETECTED It was reported that Emrah Çelik is the second president of Antalyaspor A.Ş, and that there was information indicating that he placed bets on Antalyaspor matches during the period he was an administrator. It was determined that there were a large number of legal betting data related to the matches played by the Antalyaspor football team between 2019 and 2024, and it was stated that the suspect engaged in actions aimed at influencing match results by placing bets.