IRNA -- Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of gold trader Reza Zarrab, a prosecution witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker, over unlawful building work, Anadolu news agency said on Monday. Zarrab, 34, a dual national of Iran and Turkey, was a government witness in the trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former deputy general manager ...

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 ...

Bloomberg | Christian Berthelsen: When gold trader Reza Zarrab was taken from a U.S. jail after agreeing to testify about Turkish efforts to help Iranian sanctions evasion, speculation flourished about the luxe confines he might have found himself in. Given his resources, the thinking went, he could have been put up at a luxury hotel or apartment ...

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:Over six days on the stand, a star witness for the FBI spun a stunning tale of corruption and double-dealing. Looking nervous and somber, the FBIs star witness entered from the lockup and shuffled across the New York federal courtroom in a beige prison smock. The Turkish-Iranian gold trader took a seat at the witness ...

Reuters - Turkish President Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey would not succumb to blackmail by the United States in the trial of a Turkish bank executive being charged with evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. Already strained ties between NATO allies Ankara and Washington have deteriorated as Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is cooperating ...

Press TV - Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has denounced as politically motivated a recent testimony given by Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab in a US court implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an alleged Iran sanctions-busting scheme. Speaking in Istanbul on Friday, Yildirim said he hoped Zarrab, a Turkish citizen of Iranian ...

Bloomberg - Turkeys president has argued that his country did not break a trade embargo on Iran as it hadnt committed to abide by U.S. sanctions, and there were no United Nations restrictions in place, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Friday. The comments at a Thursday meeting of Turkeys ruling party came hours before Erdogan was for the first ...

CNN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally intervened in a scheme that allowed Iran to dodge US and UN sanctions, a gold trader with ties to the Turkish government claimed in explosive court testimony in New York on Thursday. It's the first time Erdogan has been named in the closely-watched US criminal case over Iran's violations ...

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,...

Turkish Minute - President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Tuesday strongly criticized the US administration for allegedly trying to force jailed Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab to give them names from the Turkish government, saying he would explain all the details, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Zarrab was arrested in Miami in March ...

Turkish Minute - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said a visit to the US that will start on Sunday would focus on the temporary detention of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Glen and his extradition to Turkey, not on Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who was arrested in the US in 2016 for violating sanctions against Iran, the state-run ...

AP - Ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former U.S. attorney general seem "surprisingly disingenuous" and dismissive of the seriousness of criminal charges facing a wealthy Turkish businessman they've been hired to represent, a judge said on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman commented at a Manhattan court hearing designed to help him decide ...

AP - Rudy Giuliani (joo-lee-AH'-nee) is citing national security as he downplays a criminal case brought against a prominent Turkish businessman who is now the former New York mayor's legal client. The businessman, Reza Zarrab, is charged with helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. In court papers unsealed late Wednesday, Giuliani says senior U.S. and ...

Turkish singer Ebru Gnde? has filed for divorce from the Iranian-born Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab, who was recently arrested in the US city of Miami on charges of money laundering and sanctions evasion in March. Zarrabs lawyer, Volga Gke, said in a statement that Gnde? initially conveyed the divorce decision on June 13, adding that the singer ...

A Turkish gold trader accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran on Tuesday asked a federal judge to recuse himself, citing remarks he made about a series of earlier Turkish prosecutions targeting him and others. Lawyers for Reza Zarrab, 33, filed the motion a week before the judge they want recused, U.S. District Judge Richard ...

With the government unwilling to probe Iranian links with alleged graft in Turkey, Turkeys opposition plans a trip to Tehran to investigate. Turkeys two biggest opposition parties plan to send separate delegations toIranto receive related documents over alleged relations between four former ministers of the Turkish Cabinet, Iranian-origin businessmen ...