ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court formally charged 15 more suspects Thursday in a match-fixing scandal involving league champion Fenerbahce, and issued an arrest warrant for the club’s president, Turkish media said.
The court in Istanbul arraigned 15 more suspects, including senior Fenerbahce officials Sekip Mosturoglu and Ilhan Eksioglu, increasing the number of suspects in jail pending trial to 22, the state-run Anatolia news agency and NTV television reported.
The court also issued a warrant for Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim, whom newspaper reports say is suspected of bribing rival teams’ players to play badly. Yildirim still remains at a hospital after undergoing a cardiology checkup, the reports said. Yildirim was expected to be questioned by prosecutors following his release from hospital.
