The former AKP mayor complained to Erdoğan about the new AKP mayor: They are robbing the entire municipality.

Mehmet Karataş, the former mayor of Hatay Hassa, filed a criminal complaint against the current Hassa Mayor Selahattin Çolak.

Karataş, who made the corruption claim, stated that he had submitted the documents and papers to the prosecutor's office and said the following:

"IT IS TRANSFERRED TO HIS NEPHEW AND RELATIVES' ACCOUNT"

"They set up a company in the name of someone who has nothing to do with the municipality, and another in the name of the deputy mayor's nephew. They issue invoices through this company without even his own nephew knowing about it. They are extracting money from the municipality. Mr. President, listen carefully, hear us. While extracting this money, this company is officially transferring documents from the bank to the mayor's nephew and relatives' official accounts. Why did you transfer this money? Let the prosecutor's office take their statements. These are not allegations, they are facts. I have given the names of all those who shared this money among themselves to the prosecutor's office; they are all part of this network. They have established a strong network, a strong gang, and they are robbing the municipality.

This, as an AKP member, offends me deeply. There's no need for such mayors in the AKP, nor in any other party. Are you here to serve the people or to rob the municipality?

"INVOICE WAS ISSUED WITHOUT PURCHASING THE GOODS"

They issued invoices, but they didn't receive any goods in return. They didn't issue invoices, so they'll receive goods in return. They're trying to cover the gaps by giving all the company's information to someone in the market. "We have so much input and output, we have a deficit, sell us invoices." They say, "We can't issue retroactive invoices, but we can issue them in exchange for these documents, but you have to buy the goods." They didn't purchase the goods; I don't know if they deceived the people. I'll let the prosecutor's office find out. I know the official details, and so does the person selling them. They're taking the invoices without purchasing the goods to cover the gap. Mr. President, esteemed members of parliament, and esteemed AKP Provincial Chair, no one stole these documents; I submitted them to the prosecutor's office. All of these documents were released by the Vice Mayor to cover the company's deficit. Would anyone sell fuel receipts to the market because of their debt? I've been a mayor for 10 years. Running a municipality isn't easy. A poor person comes in with a patient and says, "Their car is broken down, and we need to take them to the doctor." We used to send them in the municipality's car.

Of course, we will serve our country, we will care for our citizens. If you can find a car where we can't fill it, we'll even provide fuel, but we don't provide receipts; receipts aren't sold. Imagine the receipts they give are for 150 liters of gasoline. The receipts they sell to the market are for 150 liters; which patient's car can hold 150 liters of fuel? How do they issue diesel receipts? They give work to Company A. Company A is a company they set up themselves. You can check the dates and the incoming and outgoing money. There are no workers at the company, or they've hired fictitious workers. They write down the license plates of the vehicles and forge the drivers' signatures. Then they say, "Go buy diesel in our name from so-and-so's oil company." Whose receipts belong to the municipality, whose signature is a forged signature? The person who takes this receipt has done work for others because they're owed money, or they need the money, and they sell the work to others in exchange for the money. These are the official receipts for the work: "I put my cans in the back of the car and bought diesel." Such a thing wouldn't happen, but it does. Mr. President, this is unbecoming of a mayor from any party, and it's fundamentally unbecoming of the AK Party. What is our name, the AK Party? Both the seller and the buyer of this fuel receipt say "I received it" in their statements at the prosecutor's office. I don't know what the oilmen and the people who gave it are saying, these documents are currently at the prosecutor's office.

"750 THOUSAND TL INVOICE WAS ISSUED"

Mehmet Karataş stated that the Akbez Mosque received a construction material invoice of 750 thousand TL from the Hassa Municipality, but not even a single nail was given to the mosque, as stated by the President of the Mosque Association in his statement.

The Akbez Mosque received 700,000 lira worth of materials, including construction materials, through direct procurement. Not even a single nail was provided to the mosque, and when the association president testified, he said he received nothing and had no such request. He has a statement, these are official documents. My friends can deny it all they want, but it will come to light when my esteemed prosecutor investigates. Mr. President, for God's sake, if an AKP mayor buys 750,000 lira worth of materials directly from a mosque and sells them to the market without hammering a single nail, is there any documentation supporting the sale? Excuse me, but can there be documentation for everything? But the documents for the invoice issued to the mosque are all official. They haven't given the mosque anything. The Mosque Association president also testified; let them burn it down, wouldn't that be a shame? Now imagine they're paying the road construction company with three separate checks and a fuel receipt. They're billing the company they set up as if they did the work. One is definitely worth five. That man also said it in his statement. "I built these roads, I paid this way. I'm still owed money." The municipality gives work; it lays sidewalks and roads. There's no problem with direct procurement, but the person doing the work has to invoice them. They have to pay the insurance premiums for their workers and bring a debt document from the treasury. None of this is happening; they're practically robbing the municipality."

Source: ANKA