The head of Gulen Fund arrives in Turkey after being expelled from the United States
The head of the Vito fund, Mohamed Salih Gozagher, arrived in Turkey on Friday after being deported from the United States, as the official Turkish Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkish police received Gozagher from the door of the plane, and immediately transferred to the Security Directorate to take legal action against him.
Anadolu news agency reported that the United States had expelled Gozagher following his conviction in cases involving “inviting children to prostitution through the Internet” and “attempting to sexually assault children”.
He was arrested by US police along with 22 others in May 2015 for the charges, following a wide-ranging operation involving the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
After being referred to court, a court ordered his arrest pending investigation, but he paid a $ 50,000 bail to complete his trial from outside the prison before being convicted and the authorities decide to deport him in June.
Gozagher is a member of the Board of Directors of Raindrop in 2014, a Texas-based organization that runs many of Gulen’s schools and associations.
Turkey accuses Turkish opposition leader Fathullah Gulen and his organization, Vito, of being behind the attempted coup in the country on the night of July 15, 2016.
The Turkish authorities have demanded that 83 countries in the world deport 452 people associated with Vito activities, headed by Gulen, who lives in the United States, but the latter has repeatedly refused to expel him and hand him over to Ankara.
The development comes a day after NBC published a report saying that the administration of US President Donald Trump was considering different options for Gulen’s deportation to Turkey by legal means to ease Turkish demands for Saudi Arabia in the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But the United States denied the report by both the White House and the State Department, and Turkey rejected the allegations, saying it was not politicizing Khashoggi’s case and had never proposed a similar deal to US authorities.
