Tag: December 17-25 Corruption
By Reuters NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday rejected a request by Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank to put on hold a federal prosecution accusing it of helping Iran evade U.S. economic sanctions. U.S. ...
A judge cited “extraordinary” and “remarkable” meetings two years ago involving top U.S. and Turkey political figures to intervene in a New York prosecution Thursday as he rejected efforts by a state-owned bank in Turkey ...
US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH US Treasury officials have confirmed that Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin recently attended a White House lunch with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
MANHATTAN (CN) – Some five years ago, Turkey’s soft power suddenly swelled in the United States as the country’s lobbyists and pro-government charities received millions in newfound funding. That was the same year that leaked ...
Hakan Atilla (L) and Turkish Minister Berat Albayrak The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is against Turkey’s appointment of a convicted banker as head of the stock exchange, saying it now has the ...
The charges against Halkbank are linked to a previous case involving Reza Zarrab, a Turkish banker who was arrested in March for evading U.S. sanctions. Federal prosecutors in New York announced charges Tuesday against a ...
Fake US dollar notes showing the head of Turkey’s then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan with a long nose are spread across a street leading to a building of Erdogan’s ruling AK party during a protest against ...
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Working Group on Bribery on Thursday issued a statement on its website urging Turkey to enforce its foreign bribery laws, noting that there has not been one ...
Preet Bharara, the former Southern District New York prosecutor who oversaw part of the case against Turkish citizens charged with breaking sanctions on Iran, has said in a new book about his experiences that Turkish ...
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