Okay, the brother of Republican People's Party (CHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Hakkı Suha Okay, was arrested and appeared in court yesterday.
CHP deputy Okay issued a statement on Monday about the incident, saying, “I don't even want to think about the possibility of him being involved in something like this.”
Reports have claimed that the police have footage of Mustafa Fehmi Okay giving orders to workers at an illegal narcotics factory in Tuzla. Okay is accused of being the owner of the plant and the second-in-command of the gang. Chemist Hüseyin Fehmi Işık, who also worked at the plant, was arrested in last week's operations.
Over the weekend police staged a number of joint operations in İstanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep to capture suspects who were still at large. The police's evidence against Okay is the result of the authorities monitoring his every move for one-and-a-half years.
