Iran sanctions
Turkey's Halkbank could suffer from ex-banker's US conviction
Federal prosecutors suggest Turkish bankers helped Iran launder billions of dollars to evade US financial sanctions.
The conviction of a Turkish banker in New York on Wednesday could spell trouble for Turkiye Halk Bankasi, the state-run lender implicated in a money-laundering and sanctions-evasion scheme that formed the basis of the prosecution.
The guilty verdict rendered by the Manhattan jury applies only to Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who headed international banking at Halkbank.
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