Suspect involved in FETÖ plot in Türkiye discovered in Sweden
Murat Çetiner, a fugitive member of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), joined the list of suspects wanted by Türkiye who have taken refuge in Sweden.
Çetiner, involved in an illegal wiretapping plot in Türkiye, was discovered in Akersberga, an area in Stockholm County. He runs a technology company together with two names linked to FETÖ and also works as a cyber security expert in another company.
He worked as a police chief and specialized in information technology before fleeing Türkiye. He is known as the police chief who signed documents and gave his approval to illegal wiretapping in the infamous December 17-25 and Salam Tevhid plots where a large number of people had their phones tapped under the guise of “terrorist investigation”, by FETÖ-linked police officers.
Çetiner is now apparently working with Hüseyin Aytuğ and Hasan Basri Çelebi as partners at Jaisy Health AB, a medical technology company based in Akersberga. He lives in hiding in Sweden and was seen walking by a lake with his wife recently.
The suspect is among 11 FETÖ members on Turkey’s international extradition list, but he still managed to secure an extra job at a company as a senior cyber security expert in Stockholm. He was briefly imprisoned in Türkiye and released pending trial following FETÖ’s wiretapping plots and left Türkiye two days before the terror group’s Coup attempt 2016.
His name came up in a database found in the possession of a FETÖ “imam” (a member of the group responsible for its infiltrators in law enforcement and other public authorities) and he was marked among the “most loyal” members of the group in the database. Çetiner was also one of the members of the terror group who apparently knew about the impending coup attempt, sharing a picture of a bomb that graced the front page of a FETÖ-linked newspaper, some 13 days before the coup attempt.
Çetiner is also known as one of the founders of the Nordic Research and Monitoring Network, an English-language website founded by fugitive members of FETÖ in Sweden who run smear campaigns against Türkiye. Another founder is Abdullah Bozkurt, who was recently seen in Stockholm by Sabah newspaper. Responsible for the site’s social media accounts, Çetiner is also known for his efforts to exonerate other police officers who were affiliated with the terrorist group.