Reuters - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former manager at Turkeys state-owned Halkbank, for evading U.S. sanctions against Iran. In its decision on Monday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the prosecutions broad interpretation of the sanctions law and found that the jury in the case received ...

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday charged Turkeys majority state-owned Halkbank (HALKB.IS) with taking part in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran - an indictment that may complicate tension between NATO allies Washington and Ankara. The charges unsealed in federal court in Manhattan mirror those against one of ...

Reuters - Turkey and the United States have discussed returning a jailed executive from state-owned lender Halkbank to Turkey where he can serve the rest of his sentence from an Iran sanctions-busting case, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. In May, a U.S. court sentenced Hakan Atilla, an executive from Halkbank, to 32 months in ...

Bloomberg | Christian Berthelsen:U.S. prosecutors plan to appeal the length of the prison term for a Turkish banker convicted of aiding an Iranian sanctions-evasion plot. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who headed international banking atTurkiye Halk Bankasi AS, wassentencedto fewer than three years in prison in May by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman....

The New York Times - A Turkish banker who wasconvictedof taking part in a billion-dollar conspiracy to violate United States sanctions on Iran was sentenced to 32 months in prison on Wednesday in Manhattan, a far shorter term than prosecutors had sought. The high-profile federal trial of the banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, depicted high-level corruption ...

Bloomberg- A Turkish banker convicted in January of aiding an Iranian sanctions evasion scheme objected to a recommendation to a judge that he receive a 105-year prison sentence, saying it wasnt justified. Lawyers for the banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, filed a 62-page document on Monday disputing several findings of the U.S. Probation Department, ...

Reuters - A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday delayed by nearly four weeks the sentencing of a Turkish banker convicted in January of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, 47, a former deputy general manager at Turkeys state-controlled Halkbank, is now scheduled to learn his punishment on May 7, instead of April 11. U.S. ...

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to sentence a Turkish banker convicted of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions to about 20 years in prison, in a case that has strained diplomatic ties between the United States and Turkey. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, 47, a former deputy general manager at Turkeys state-controlled Halkbank, had ...

AP A federal judge wants lawyers is a case involving a billion-dollar scheme to evade American sanctions against Iran to detail any communications they had with the U.S. and Turkish governments. In a brief order filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman directed the government and defense attorneys to include ...

Sputnik- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday described the ongoing trial in the United States of deputy CEO of Turkey's Halkbank Hakan Atilla as part of the attempt to stage a new coup in Turkey. On January 4, acting US Attorney Joon Kim said that a jury unanimously convicted Atilla ofa scheme tosend billions ofdollars toIran ...

Press TV- Ankara has slammed a US court ruling that convicted a Turkish banker for allegedly helping Iran evade Washingtons sanctions as unjust and unfortunate, saying the trial amounted to unprecedented interference in Turkeys internal affairs. It is an unjust and unfortunate development that Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla ...

Reuters- A U.S. jury on Wednesday found a Turkish banker guilty of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, after a nearly four-week trial that has strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at Turkeys majority state-owned Halkbank (HALKB.IS), was convicted on five of six counts he faced, including ...

Reuters - A U.S. judge on Tuesday refused to order a mistrial in the case of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at Turkeys majority state-owned Halkbank who is charged with helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan federal court rejected arguments by Atillas lawyers that the trial was tainted when prosecutors ...

AP A New York jury deliberating the fate of a Turkish banker charged with helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions is off until after the holidays. Federal court jurors in Manhattan finished a third day of discussions Friday in the trial of Halkbank executive Mehmet Hakan Atilla and were told to return Jan. 3. Prosecutors say Atilla was the architect ...

Reuters - Lawyers for a Turkish banker on trial in New York on charges that he helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions asked a judge on Wednesday to declare a mistrial, saying testimony by a former Turkish police investigator should not have been allowed in court. The lawyers for Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at Turkeys majority state-owned Halkbank,...

Bloomberg |Christian Berthelsen & Bob Van Voris: Lawyers for a Turkish banker accused of aiding an Iran sanctions-evasion plot are pointing the finger at his colleagues. A defense lawyer for banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a deputy general manager atTurkiye Halk Bankasi AS, spent a second day on Wednesday cross-examining the governments star witness,...

Bloomberg | Christian Berthelsen & Bob Van Voris: A Turkish banker is on trial in New York accused of helping Iran evade U.S. financial sanctions. But its his former co-defendant Reza Zarrab who has stolen the limelight. The banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, faded so far into the background that U.S. District Judge Richard Berman reminded prosecutors ...

Bloomberg l Christian Berthelsen, Bob Van Voris and Chris Dolmetsch: Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader at the center of an international corruption case, is set to tell a New York jury the inside story of a plot to evade American sanctions on Iran that reached the highest levels of Turkeys government, a prosecutor said. Zarrab is the U....

Bloomberg- The trial of a Turkish banker charged with helping Iran evade economic sanctions is set to begin Tuesday after a jury was selected in New York. The banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, will be the only defendant on trial, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman told jurors in court on Monday. That still leaves unanswered whether the main defendant,...

Reuters- An executive at the Turkish state-owned bank Halkbank on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges he violated U.S. sanctions against Iran in a politically charged case that has drawn the ire of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a deputy general manager at Halkbank, entered his plea through his lawyer at a hearing ...