Adil Serdar Saçan

Adil Serdar Saçan (21 September 1962 – 24 May 2023) was a Turkish police chief who oversaw numerous high-profile investigations. He supervised the Istanbul police force's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Department , which he established in 1998. In June 2008, he and his son Kerim Bedri survived an accident involving a truck.

Career Saçan led 600 investigations, including those of the Malki murders, Albayrak Holding, and Adnan Oktar.

In September 2008, he himself was detained on charges of being a member. He was interrogated by prosecutor Mehmet Ali Pekgüzel for nearly twelve hours, in reference to the Gülenist clique inside the police force, and the thwarting of the Ergenekon investigation in 2001. He shared a cell with Tuncay Özkan and his former detainee, Sedat Peker.

The Fatih Second Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced Saçan to five months in prison on charges of taking confidential investigation documents into his own possession.

On 5 August 2013, he was sentenced to 14 years and six months as part of the Ergenekon trials.

Death Saçan died of lung cancer on 24 May 2023, at the age of 60.