Money, funnelled to Gülen's terrorist organisation, bears a striking resemblance to tithe to which, people paid to the church in the past, Ankara chief public prosecutor's office said in an indictment, submitted only two days before the last month's coup bid.

The indictment explained the illegal group's structure to funnel money is closely modelled on the Church system in which a portion of the donor's annual income, contributed voluntarily or due to as a tax, especially one tenth of their income, to support of Christian clergy.

According to the indictment, Gülen's loyalists collected money under the guise of scholarship, alms, fund, and donor to help the poor, the student and the orphan, with the aim of establishing a notorious organisation to control the state and to serve the interests of foreing countries. “The organisation have collected money from people, deceived with their belief to Allah and the Islam, and used these financial sources in the interest of foreing countries without giving an account.”

Gülen's illicit group, first commenced business in the education field in the 60s, has become such a giant structure within six decades that it turned into a financial power, ruling a huge amount of $ 150 billion. “The non-refundable resources they have obtained through extortion, deception and fraud, have been transferred to the institutions, close to the outlawed group, so that the members, designated as Imam, have handed over the resources to companies, run by Gülen's followers,” the indictment detailed.

According to the indictment, the infamous group's affiliates in the business world established TUSKON, one of the largest business confederations in Turkey, in 2005 by the order of Fetullah Gülen, wanted for terror charges in his home. “The number of businessmen, affiliated to TUSKON, operating with its seven federation and 211 associtions, has climbed to 55,000 as of 2014. Boydak Holding and Koza-İpek Holding to which the state appointed trustees, for their funding to Gülen-led terror network, are among the Turkish conglomerates, associated with TUSCON.”

The indictment also said the illicit group covered up evidences that the money has been collected from its members according as their annual income. “They have invested the money under the guise of due they have deposited to the societies, they are associated with. Later, these resorcues have been collected by accoundants, subordinated by the illigal organisation's senior members, in charge of the town or the province they live in,” the indictment said, adding that members have been subjected to fake investigation when refused to funding the group.