While the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry did not make any statement regarding the 60 million Turkish Liras (TL) Product Verification and Tracking System (UDTS) corruption in the Ministry of Agriculture, although it was the first degree party to the issue, Hakan Bilal Kutlualp, who was nicknamed the "banana king", sent a second statement to our newspaper. It was noteworthy that he also sent a statement to our “Corruption is Out, Ministry is Silent!” news which we gave place of Kutlualp's previous statement that he sent to our "This is how they collapsed agriculture! 60 million TL for the fictitious tender!” news.
Despite the fact that the expert report submitted to the Ankara 18th Civil Court and the great corruption in the tender process of the Product Verification and Tracking System made during the period of former Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Mehdi Eker, and despite the fact that the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is primarily responsible for the corruption in the news, It is significant that Hakan Bilal Kutlualp sent a warning to every news made and the Ministry makes no statement.
In the statements sent by Hakan Bilal Kutlualp to our newspaper, it is also significant that he tried to detach the great corruption from its essence by pulling the case completely into a personal action.
FAKE SIGNATURE SCANDAL ARISING AT THE TENDER COMMISSION EXHIBITS THE GREAT CORRUPTION
A major fraudulent signature scandal emerged in the Product Verification and Tracking System, which was tendered during the ministry of Mehdi Eker. While the expert panel appointed by the court determined that the Ministry employee, who was not in the tender commission, was signed as if he had participated in the tender commission in the tender of ÜDTS, it is significant that this great scandal that took place in such an important tender was tried to be covered up.
In the statements Hakan Bilal Kutlualp sent to the Milli Gazete, it is meaningful that he tried to draw the great corruption in UDTS to a different channel by ignoring the findings of UDTS expert committee appointed by the court regarding all questionable transactions during the tender process and stating that making no payment to him by the Ministry’s decision to liquidate him and that he won the lawsuit he filed.
FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT CAME FROM HAKAN BİLAL KUTLUALP
The warning sent by Hakan Bilal Kutlualp, through his lawyer Şükran Altınsoy, to the news titled “Corruption is Out, Ministry is Silent!”, published in our newspaper on July 21, is as follows:
“It has been deemed necessary to make a statement regarding the news of journalist Sadettin Inan on the 1st and 2nd pages of your newspaper dated July 21, 2022, titled ‘Corruption is Out, Ministry is Silent!’
On July 5, 2022, your newspaper first reported on the matter, which should be paid to him by the Ministry of Agriculture due to the lawsuit won by the client, and which has not been paid a single kurus after years, completely contrary to the court decisions and the expert reports received from these courts, in this news the price to be paid for the lawsuit won by the client is shown as if it were a corruption, a fraud.
The client has exercised his legal rights against this news of your newspaper, which is full of insults and slander, has sent the letter of disclaimer in accordance with the press law and subsequently filed a criminal complaint.
Your newspaper has published our disclaimer, which was published in the issue dated July 21, 2022, incomplete and in violation of the press law, together with the news subject to another crime, partially and together with various comments. In the aforementioned copy, the text of the disclaimer sent was published incompletely and with comments, and it was used to insult the client, end reference, and to create grudge and hatred against the client in the eyes of the public. As we have repeatedly declared, the Ministry of Agriculture decided to liquidate the tender held in 2013 unilaterally with all its results, and my client company notified this liquidation decision with a cover letter dated June 16, 2014. In a business that has been decided to be liquidated by the Administration, the contractor's responsibility for that work, as of the issuance and notification of the liquidation decision, the power of disposition has been removed and the possibility of the contractor to make executive actions according to the tender has also ended. In fact, we understand from the news of your newspaper that you do not have any difficulty in accessing all documents related to the legal process. When you read the documents you have accessed, it will not be difficult for you to understand my client's rightness. However, it is not understandable for you to reflect the event to the public as if it was continuing and unfair money was being collected for a business that was liquidated in 2014. At this stage, unfortunately, from our point of view, the incident has nothing to do with freedom of the press, and we think that your newspaper is consciously and deliberately targeting my client. In your last article, it was emphasized that my client was in the former Fenerbahçe administration, and it is clearly malicious that you target your client in the sports community, and that you direct the public to hatred and grudge by discriminating because of the team they support. The company of my client has nothing to hide from the public and the press. However, judicial authorities will be applied to obtain information and documents in a way that violates the personal data and private life of the client, and to conduct research on people who obtained, disseminated and used as part of a fictional accusation other than their real nature.
Ultimately, both my client VERİSO company and the owner of this company, HAKAN BİLAL KUTLUALP, participated in the tender held by the Ministry of Agriculture, within the limits set by the laws, in compliance with the rules set by the law, won the tender, and then the administration decided to liquidate it. At the end of 7 years, he won this case by exhausting all legal remedies. Despite all this, due to the fact that it is presented as a person who is shown to be the addressee of the collapse of agriculture about the client, who is always a party to a corrupt tender in the eyes of the public, who gains unfairly, harms the public, is a party to fraudulent transactions, and the information given is not suitable for the concrete and actual situation/reality, it has been necessary to disprove your article.”