Imprisoned Iranian businessman confesses to gold trade through Turkey
Babek Zanjani, an Iranian businessman currently imprisoned in Iran on corruption charges and connected to Turkey’s massive 2013 graft case, has confessed that his company brought 1.5 tons of gold from Ghana to Istanbul by a plane and took it to Dubai, according to Iranian media reports. Speaking in a court session on Nov. 23, Zanjani also claimed that the smuggled gold was fake. Zanjani is accused of stealing $2.8 billion from the Iranian state, and his trial started at the beginning of October. The Iranian state has seized his wealth both ...
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