Banker in Iran sanctions trial found guilty
level Turkish banker was convicted Wednesday of participating in a billion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. economic sanctions against Iran, threatening to upend an already teetering relationship between two longtime NATO allies. Mehmet Hakkan Atilla, the former deputy general manager of Turkey’s state-controlled Halkbank, was found guilty by a federal jury in New York of conspiracies to violate U.S. sanctions law, defraud the U.S. and commit money laundering and bank fraud, as well as a substantive charge of bank fraud. He was found not guilty ...
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