Turkish banker released from US prison | The Malaysian Insight

Mehmet Hakan Atilla, 47, a deputy manager at Halkbank, who participated in a major scheme in which Iranian gold and gas where traded for food and gold has been released from US prison and is awaiting deportation to Turkey. – EPA pic, July 20, 2019.

A TURKISH banker convicted for plotting to help Iran evade American sanctions on Iranian oil proceeds has been released from US prison, according to his lawyer and prison officials. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, 47, deputy director general of Turkish lender Halkbank, was arrested in March 2017 and convicted the following year on five counts of bank fraud and conspiracy following a five-week trial in New York.

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