A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday charged 14 people, among them a senior intelligence officer and a well-known football manager, for helping the country's top mob leader flee abroad with a false passport.

The charge-sheet was the result of a probe into how Alaattin Cakici, wanted for a long list of crimes, including murder, managed to escape in May, just hours before an arrest warrant was issued for him.

Cakici, widely believed to be protected by high-level officials for alleged favors he did for Turkish secret services in the past, was arrested in Austria and extradited to Turkey last month.

The prosecutor demanded between six months and one year in jail for Kasif Kozinoglu, head of the foreign department of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) for "aiding and abetting a criminal group," Anatolia news agency said.

The agency did not say what specific accusations Kozinoglu faced, but media reports have said he lobbied the head of the appeals court on behalf of Cakici.

Kozinoglu allegedly told the top judge that they would like to see Cakici remain at large for some time because he held an important secret which the intelligence agency wanted to obtain.

According to media reports, the appeals court dragged its feet in sending to related authorities a confirmation of a jail sentence ruled against Cakici for ordering an armed attack on a rival gang in 2000, which allegedly gave him the time to organize his escape.

The prosecutor also demanded up to four years in jail for Sinan Engin, the former manager of the leading football club Besiktas, for "aiding and abetting a criminal group" and "arranging a false passport and documents," Anatolia said.

Engin reportedly helped Cakici obtain a visa for a false passport by arranging a recommendation letter addressed to the Italian consulate in Istanbul which presented the mafioso as a Besiktas official.

He resigned from the club after the affair surfaced earlier this year.

Cakici, 51, was a far-right militant in Turkey's notorious Grey Wolves group until he turned to full-time crime in the 1990s. He was allegedly subcontracted by MIT for secret missions in the 1970s.

Cakici was also at the center of a 1998 scandal over the privatization of a state bank, which resulted in the toppling of then-prime minister Mesut Yilmaz, who reportedly resorted to Cakici's services to scare off unwanted bidders.