Euronews | Heidi Przybyla and Julia Ainsley and Tom WinterwithNBC News Politics: A Turkish-Iranian gold trader in U.S. custody is continuing to provide information that could be critical to unraveling a multi-billion-dollar sanctions evasion scheme involving Iran the biggest in recent U.S. history, Justice Department officials say. But national ...

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 ...

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 ...

MNA The Turkish Justice Minister says that Turkey will reject any US court decision on Turkish bank, refusing to abide by possible US sanctions against Iran. In an interview with Turkish Kanal 24, Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul, said that it is impossible for Turkish government to accept a court verdict which is against the countrys national ...

Al-Monitor- Irans former Central Bank head Mahmoud Bahmani, reacting to Iranian-Turkish tycoon Reza Zarrabs recent statementsin a US court,sayshe never met with Zarrab. In his testimony in a New York trial, Zarrab, who was arrested in the United States on March 19, 2016,explained how he helped Iran bypass US sanctions. He saidhe had meetingswith Bahmani ...

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 | Bob Van Voris, Christian Berthelsen & Chris Dolmetsch: Reza Zarrab, the Turkish currency trader who admitted helping Iran move billions of dollars in violation of U.S. financial sanctions, said in a recorded jailhouse conversation that he needed to lie about his own crimes to get a reduced sentence, according to a summary of his words....

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Turkish-Iranian business tycoon Reza Zarrabs testimony in a US court has received extensive coverage in Iranian media; however, this coverage doesnt stem from his real charge in the United States, which is bypassing the sanctions against Tehran, but rather because he has been linked to a controversial billionaire tycoon ...

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 ...

AP Turkish prosecutors have ordered the seizure of assets of a wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman who is the star witness in the U.S. trial of a Turkish banker charged with violating sanctions against Iran. Turkeys official Anadolu Agency said late Friday that Istanbul prosecutors demanded the seizure of the assets of gold trader Reza Zarrab and ...

The Washington Post | Devlin Barrett: A Turkish Iranian gold dealer is expected to testify Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, the star witness in what was to have been his own trial on charges of fraud and violating sanctions. Now, he will give evidence against others in a case that is likely to further strain relations between the U.S. and Turkish ...

Bloomberg- The trial of a Turkish-Iranian gold trader accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions and bribing senior Turkish officials was put off for a week as mystery continues to shroud the proceedings. The prosecution of Reza Zarrab has attracted intense scrutiny with indications that top Turkish officials and banking executives might have ...

Reuters - The U.S. case against a Turkish gold trader accused of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran is based on evidence fabricated by the network of the Muslim cleric Ankara blames for last years coup attempt, Turkeys foreign minister said on Friday. Mevlut Cavusoglu said the case against the trader, Reza Zarrab, showed the extent to which followers ...

Bloomberg - The politically charged trial of Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab thats scheduled to begin next month in New York might start without the key actor: Zarrab himself. Its not clear why. In a court filing late Monday, a lawyer for co-defendant Mehmet Atilla, a deputy chief executive officer at state-ownedTurkiye Halk Bankasi AS,...

Press TV - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced as politically motivated the US prosecutors recent charges against a former economy minister accused of violating US sanctions on Iran, calling on Washington to review the move. "I say clearly, I see this step taken against our former economy minister [Mehmet Zafer Caglayan] as ...

The New York Times - Federal prosecutors in New York announced on Wednesday the filing of a new indictment that charges a former Turkish economy minister and three other Turks with participating in a broad conspiracy to violate the United States sanctions againstIran. The new charges represent a significant expansion of a case that had already drawn ...

RFERL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to drop an Iran sanctions case against a wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman on a visit to Washington on May 16. Erdogan, who meets with Trump at the White House in the afternoon, has been lobbying for the release of Reza Zarrab, who is charged with acting ...

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 ...

Turkish Minute - Two prominent lawyers added last week to the legal team of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian businessman who is awaiting trial on charges of violating US sanctions on Iran, are working to resolve the case with Trump administration officials and the Turkish government instead of the US attorneys office that is prosecuting him, according ...