The Lighthouse Mole
Big news from Turkey. The leader of the opposition CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has accused a deputy prime minister of providing insider information to suspects in a high-profile charity fraud investigation.
“This is the dossier of the mole,” Kılıçdaroğlu said, lifting up the dossier in his hand to a cheering audience. “The mole is Beşir Atalay.”--then the interior minister.
The Lighthouse probe was launched in Turkey after a Frankfurt court in 2008 convicted three managers of the Lighthouse e.V. charity in Germany for embezzling 40 million euros. Most of the money is believed to have ended up in Turkey in the coffers of the pro-government Kanal 7 television channel and a business group whose owners are close to the AKP.
“Europe did not hear our voice and backed the AKP [Justice and Development Party] in the referendum,” Kılıçdaroğlu was quoted as saying.
You can read more about it here. This is big. Like Watergate. Or it would be if this was a normal country.
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Aug '10
Re: The Lighthouse Mole
But Watergate was just a secondrate burglary that empowered the press.