 Çakıcı was allegedly in possession of incriminating information about other government officials at the time of his arrest.Turkey's ambassador to France at the time was Sönmez Köksal—the undersecretary of the MİT until February 1998.Ataç had originally planned to give the passport to Mehmet Can Kulaksızoğlu, the fugitive leader of the Turkish Revenge Brigade and suspected mastermind behind the assassination attempt on Human Rights Association chairman Akın Birdal.