Jurors in fresh York hear businessman Reza Zarrab describe money laundering network to enable Iran to access global marketsA scheme Iran allegedly used to evade sanctions through a state-owned bank in Turkey has been detailed in court by a businessman who claimed the Turkish president,Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had been aware of the billion-dollar operation.
In a case that has strained relations between Turkey and the US, and Reza Zarrab,a Turkish-Iranian gold trader, described a sprawling money laundering network that allowed Iran access to international markets from 2010 to 2015 in violation of sanctions over its nuclear programme.
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Source: guardian.co.uk