2.100 million Loyalty of the minister to his friend: It was never fair!

Istanbul On June 28, 2019, when Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu took office and officially took office, the IMM Secretary General and five assistants resigned en masse.

Of the five attendees, Adil Karaismailoğlu first became Deputy Minister and then Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. One of the five attendees was Muzaffer Hacımustafaoğlu, Deputy Secretary General for Transport, who previously served as IMM Department of Transport. The paths of these two crossed again a few years later in a giant boat.

This time, one is in charge of the contracting authority and the other as the owner of the contracting company that participates in the tender.

It was later understood that the tender was held on October 31, 2022. Because the tender notice was not published, the tender was concealed. The tender entered the records of the Public Procurement Authority exactly 45 days after all procedures were completed and the process was completed.

EXCEPTION APPLIED

The offer in question was the offer of Bartın Cevreyolu. The experts from the General Directorate of Highways, which organized the tender, calculated the approximate cost at 2,446,001,8156 liras and 35 cents. Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu preferred the “21-b Negotiation” method, which is the exception provided for extraordinary and unpredictable situations such as earthquakes, instead of the open method that allows for competition, which is determined as the main procedure by the tender law. The AKP government was using this method especially as a means of awarding large tenders to the company it wanted.

In this method, there was no requirement to make an announcement for the tender. In other words, the desired companies are invited to bid without informing anyone and the doors are closed. It was concluded in secret.

SPECIAL INVITATION TO A FRIEND

fair Karaismailoğlu specially invited KCT Yol Yapı İnşaat, owned by his former colleague Muzaffer Hacımustafaoğlu, to the US$1 billion bidding. 4 more companies were invited to the tender held at the General Directorate of Highways. As a result, the tender was awarded to Muzaffer Hacımustafaoğlu’s KCT company and AKM Yapı Business Partnership for 2 thousand 195 million 988 thousand TL. According to the contract signed on November 25, 2022, it will begin on December 10 and end on October 6, 2023.

He became a partner in the company 5 days after his resignation.

Trade According to registry records, KCT was founded in 2010 as a limited company by Cenk Tosun and Mustafa Kalafatoğlu. The capital of the company, which became a joint-stock company in 2017, was reported at 500,000 TL and the sole shareholder was Erdal Günaydın. The capital was increased to 2 million lira in 2018. Muzaffer Hacımustafaoğlu is also the Istanbul Bus Inc. he also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. When Ekrem İmamoğlu won the second elections held on June 23, 2019, Muzaffer Hacımustafaoğlu resigned on June 28 along with the General Secretary of İBB and his four assistants. Hacımustafaoğlu became a partner of KCT 5 days after his resignation.