Sentences with phrase «turkish gold trader»

The remark was in response to court papers showing Giuliani publicly acknowledging for the first time that he has been hired to help unwind the case against Reza Zarrab, an Iranian - Turkish gold trader charged with violating US sanctions against Iran.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has for the first time acknowledged the contours of his unusual effort in representing Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader jailed in Manhattan on charges of conspiring to violate the American sanctions on Iran: In a newly unsealed court affidavit, he makes it clear that he is trying to turn a criminal case into a matter of international diplomacy.

Third, we learned this week that Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab, who had been charged with orchestrating a scheme to avoid Iran sanctions, has agreed to become a government witness as part of a plea deal.

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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.

And Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said there was «malicious intent» behind Mr. Bharara's prosecution of Reza Zarrab, a gold trader who has Turkish and Iranian citizenship, according to Turkish news reports.

But the gold trader's testimony also implicated high - ranking Turkish ministers in bribes of tens of millions of dollars, and he accused Erdogan of personally ordering sanctions - busting trades.