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US prosecutors credit gold trader in Iran sanctions case with key help ahead of sentencing
U.S. prosecutors are seeking leniency at next-week’s sentencing of a Turkish-Iranian businessman who admitted to helping Iranians and their government evade sanctions and who provided key testimony at a 2017 corruption trial that strained relations between the U.S. and Turkey. The prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to a New York federal judge that international gold trader Reza Zarrab provided substantial help to the U.S. when he revealed paying millions of dollars in bribes to government and banking officials in Turkey and provided key testimony at the December 2017 trial. His testimony preceded ... (full story)
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