Reza Zarrab, Turk at Center of Iran Sanctions Case, Is Helping Prosecution

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Reza Zarrab, Turk at Center of Iran Sanctions Case, Is Helping Prosecution
d be made to go away." "Zarrab paid the money," Mr. Denton said, "co-conspirators got out of jail, and the case the Turkish police had developed was dismissed." Please verify you’re not a robot by clicking the box.
that the same corrupt high-ranking Turkish officials instructed Zarrab to put up even more bribe money for the judges, millions and millions in bribes, so that everything coul
Mr. Rocco said Mr. Zarrab had paid "fortunes in bribes" to businessmen
and government leaders in Russia, China, Iran and Turkey "to get what he wanted." "To Zarrab, bribery was a way of life," Mr. Rocco said.
pieced together what was going on," Mr. Denton said, "and the evidence they found tells the same story
that the evidence collected by the Turkish police did." On Tuesday, the Turkish authorities were again taking measures, this time in response to the case in New York.
Mr. Erdemir, in a statement, called the Turkish charges against him false, defamatory
and "entirely political in nature" and said, "The Turkish government has a regrettable history of harassing and intimidating critics and experts." In court on Tuesday, the government asked the judge, Richard M. Berman, to unseal court papers related to Mr. Zarrab’s guilty plea.
But, Mr. Denton told the jury, bribes "bought a cover-up." Turkish officials, he said, organized a purge of the police
and prosecutors who had run the case, sent many of them to jail and shut down the investigation.

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