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2019-10-17 Home Front: WoT
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US charges Turkish bank with evading sanctions against Iran
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[IsraelTimes] Amid tense relations over Ankara’s Syria offensive, US prosecutor calls case of Halkbank the most serious violation of Iran sanctions his office has seen.
The United States has criminally charged a major Ottoman Turkish bank with helping Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
evade sanctions against it, potentially raising diplomatic tensions as the US tries to contain The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
’s military offensive in Syria.
The charges against Halkbank, a state-owned bank, were announced Tuesday, years after a wealthy gold trader was arrested in Florida. Before pleading guilty and testifying against a co-defendant, the Ottoman Turkish-Iranian businessman, Reza Zarrab, hired Rudy Giuliani to lobby the administration of US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
to drop the charges as part of a prisoner exchange.
The timing of the charges could be significant as the Trump administration tries to press Turkey to limit its military incursions in Syria, a move Trump himself allowed by declaring US troops would be withdrawn.
The US imposed limited sanctions on Turkey this week and has threatened more. While the charges against Halkbank are not related, they could give the US leverage as Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien travel to Turkey on Wednesday.
In a release, US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said bigwigs at Halkbank had designed and carried out the scheme to move billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue illegally.
According to the indictment, Halkbank illegally moved about $20 billion worth of otherwise restricted Iranian funds. It said the bank let Iranian oil and gas money be used to buy gold that was not exported to Iran and let transactions fraudulently designed to appear to be purchases of food and medicine by Iranian customers proceed, qualifying those funds for a "humanitarian exception" allowed under the sanctions.
Berman said the crimes were supported and protected by high-ranking Ottoman Turkish government officials who received millions of dollars in bribes to promote and protect the scheme.
US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers called the crimes one of the most serious Iran sanctions violations his office has seen.
A representative of the bank could not immediately be reached for comment.
The indictment of the bank comes in a case that has resulted in charges against nine individuals, including bank employees, the former Ottoman Turkish Minister of the Economy and other scheme participants. Seven of those individuals remain runaways.
| They aren’t really fugitives if they chose to stay home or elsewhere instead of flying all the way to the U.S. to stand trial, but do go on. |
The charges bring fresh attention to the role Giuliani played in the case as he teamed with Michael B. Mukasey, a former US attorney general in President George W. Bush’s administration, to meet with Trump administration officials and Turkey President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
. The talks in 2017 failed to produce a deal.
Eventually, Ottoman Turkish officials criticized US prosecutors as they began a trial of Mehmet Hakkan Atilla,
| ...in our archives as Hakan Atilla and Mehmet Hakan Atilla because transliteration from even a related alphabet provides so many options... |
a Halkbank official. Atilla was convicted last year of conspiracies to violate US sanctions law, defraud the US and commit money laundering and bank fraud.
Zarrab testified that he helped orchestrate the deals with Iran, paying over $50 million in bribes to Turkey’s finance minister to advance the scheme. He said he believed Erdogan knew about the plot.
Prosecutors described it then as the largest sanctions-evasion prosecution on record, saying Atilla "massively undermined" US efforts to choke off funding to Iran during negotiations to limit its nuclear program.
The case raised tensions between the US and Turkey, where officials called it a charade aimed at discrediting Erdogan’s government. Erdogan labeled it an American conspiracy to "blackmail" and "blemish" his country.
A front man for Erdogan called Atilla’s conviction a "scandalous verdict."
Atilla served over two years in prison and returned to Turkey in July after his release. 
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