An investigation into a controversial raid on trucks belonging to National Intelligence Organization (MİT) three years ago found that suspects linked to Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) wiretapped phones of MİT officials and plotted the raid three months before trucks were stopped near the Syrian border, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

An indictment from prosecutors claims that a group of FETÖ-linked suspects, including two military intelligence officers, met at a hotel in the central city of Nevşehir to plot the raid in order to defame MİT and for espionage.

Gendarmerie troops with ties to the terrorist group stormed MİT trucks in Hatay and Adana provinces between Jan. 1 and Jan. 19. FETÖ members then spread propaganda that claimed that the trucks were carrying weapons to terrorists in Syria. It was later revealed to be a plot by FETÖ and 44 suspects involved in the raid have been detained while 11 others remain at large.

The indictment says gendarmerie officers with FETÖ ties wiretapped the telephones of seven MİT officials who were in the trucks during the raid by forging a document showing them as "drug smuggling suspects." The indictment claims that FETÖ leader Fetullah Gülen, whose extradition Ankara is actively seeking from Washington for multiple crimes, ordered his followers infiltrated into state institutions to expose a secret operation by MİT being conducted in southern Turkey.

Enis Berberoğlu, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), and journalists for the Cumhuriyet daily have been tried and sentenced for revealing state secrets by leaking information and writing about the incident.

The indictment, the fifth in the case, asks for multiple life sentences for the suspects on terrorism charges.

According to the indictment, Muharrem Gözüküçük and Bayram Andaç called the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Consulate's office one day after the raid in March 2014. Both men are civilian imams for FETÖ, according to prosecutors, a term used to describe FETÖ point men who commanded the group's infiltrators in the army, police, judiciary and bureaucratic positions.

Andaç "organized the raid" and on Jan. 20, he made three phone calls to the said U.S. missions in Turkey. Prosecutor İrfan Fidan, who investigated the case, has recently said in a statement that the MİT trucks raid was the "joint work of FETÖ and foreign intelligence services," adding that it was "an act against Turkey's national security."