Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday charged Istanbul’s jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu with 142 offences in a massive legal case that could carry a penalty of more than 2,000 years in jail, court documents showed.

Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival and seen as the only politician capable of beating him at the ballot box, with his arrest in March sparking Turkey’s worst bout of street unrest since 2013.

The nearly 4,000-page indictment charged the popular opposition mayor with a long string of offences, including running a criminal organisation, bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, extortion and tender rigging.

State news agency Anadolu said the charges would carry a prison sentence of up to 2,430 years.

The head of Turkey’s main opposition CHP lashed out at th

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