In Total Coincidence, US Finally Charges Turkey’s Halkbank In Zarrab Case
In case Washington's relationship with Ankara needed to get any more contentious, US prosecutors filed criminal charges on Tuesday against Turkey’s Halkbank, as part of a long-running, high-profile case that implicated officials at the highest levels of the Turkish government, including Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Halkbank management perpetrated a "brazen scheme to circumvent our nation’s Iran sanctions regime", US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement, adding that "Halkbank’s systemic
Erdogan and his cronies collected large amount of bribes amounting millions of dollars which is stashed in US and around the world.
Back in the day, HalkBank was known as “the incredible Halk”, because it lived on despite all its mistakes.