An Istanbul courtroom docket Wednesday sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad ladies he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in jail in a retrial, nearby media reported. Adnan Oktar led tv programmes surrounded with the aid of using ladies carrying plenty of make-up and little garments as he preached creationism and conservative values. Last year, the 66-year-vintage changed into sentenced to 1,1/2 years for crimes together with sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud and tried political and army espionage.
But that ruling changed into overturned through an top courtroom docket. During the retrial, Istanbul excessive crook courtroom docket sentenced Oktar to 8,658 years in jail on numerous expenses inclusive of sexual abuse and depriving a person in their liberty, the Anadolu information business enterprise reported. The courtroom docket additionally sentenced 10 different suspects to 8,658 years in jail each, the business enterprise said. Oktar, whom critics see because the chief of a cult, won notoriety for his programmes on the web A9 tv channel and had frequently been denounced through Turkey’s spiritual leaders. In a chief crackdown on his group, he changed into taken into custody in Istanbul in 2018 as a part of a probe through the city’s police economic crimes unit.