A prosecutor accused of alerting a criminal gang allegedly led by disgraced former Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu before operations against the gang was suspended from duty, the Sabah newspaper reported on Monday.
The prosecutor, identified with her initials as S.Ç.S., met Mehmet Pehlivan, Imamoğlu’s lawyer, prior to the anti-corruption operation that led to the mayor’s arrest in March. The Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) launched an investigation into a suspected prosecutor who is also accused of hurling a threat at another prosecutor working on Imamoğlu’s case.
The indictment in the case against the Imamoğlu gang revealed that Pehlivan allegedly met with a "red-haired female prosecutor" in a hotel room before the corruption operation.
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