US finds Turkish landowner guilty of assisting Iran evasion sanctions

NEW YORK – A US jury on Wednesday found a Turkish landowner guilty of assisting Iran hedge US sanctions, after a scarcely four-week hearing that has stretched tactful family between a United States and Turkey.

Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive during Turkey’s infancy state-owned Halkbank, was convicted on 5 of 6 depends he faced, including bank rascal and conspiracy, in Manhattan sovereign court.

Prosecutors had indicted Atilla of conspiring with bullion merchant Reza Zarrab and others to assistance Iran shun sanctions regulating fake bullion and food transactions.