Il meccanismo per pagare l'Iran era semplice:
utilizzare i lingotti d'oro..ed altro, evitando i dollari USA.
Che poi, in Turchia, i lingotti d'oro non si trovano poi tanto facilmente..
Ed allora, per evitare controlli e domande scomode, ecco una pioggia di mazzette a tutti i funzionari turchi, incluso il clan del noto
contrabbandiere Erdogan..
Ma il nostro eroe, Mr. Mehmet Hakan Atilla, un dirigente della filiale USA della banca turca Halkbank (HALKB.IS) alla fine è stato beccato..
Perché le condizioni USA relative all'embargo con l'Iran sono ben precise ed in USA ormai sono in molti a controllare cosa succede ai confini con la Turchia.
Mr. Mehmet Hakan Atilla ha anche pagato il petrolio con forniture di derrate alimentari, insomma con una attività di "barter" ovvero di scambio merci.
Petrolio iraniano a basso prezzo contro oro, cibo, ed altre merci di prima necessità..
Perché no ?
Peccato che tutte queste operazioni siano avvenute in modo illegale e che poi alla fine, ci sia scappato pure il reato di riciclaggio.
Insomma il cerchio USA, intorno all'Iran, si stringerà sempre di più..
E l'Europa ?
Come la Cina e la Russia da un lato firmano le risoluzioni dell'ONU ( la notoria Organizzazione Inutile ) dall'altra proseguono a fornire l'Iran,
magari con
più attenzione, magari da Hong Kong.
Perché Hong Kong è pur sempre il paradiso finanziario del Celeste Impero.. aperto H24
NEW YORK (Reuters) –
A U.S. jury on Wednesday found a Turkish banker guilty of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, after a nearly four-week trial
that has strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey.
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank (HALKB.IS), was convicted
on five of six counts he faced, including bank fraud and conspiracy, in Manhattan federal court.
Atilla was also found not guilty on a money laundering charge.
Prosecutors had accused Atilla of conspiring with gold trader Reza Zarrab and others to help Iran escape sanctions using fraudulent gold and food
transactions.
In several days on the witness stand, Zarrab had described a sprawling scheme that he said included bribes to Turkish government officials and
was carried out with the blessing of current President Tayyip Erdogan.
Halkbank had no immediate comment. Attempts to reach Erdogan’s spokesman for comment on the allegations at the trial have been unsuccessful.
U.S. prosecutors have criminally charged nine people, though only Zarrab, 34, and Atilla, 47, have been arrested by U.S. authorities.
“Foreign banks and bankers have a choice:
The trial included testimony from a former Turkish police officer, Huseyin Korkmaz, who said he investigated Zarrab’s business
and ties to government officials in 2012 and 2013.
Korkmaz said he was jailed in retaliation, and eventually fled to the United States, carrying evidence from his investigation with him.
Last week, Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul demanded in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Korkmaz be returned to Turkey,
calling him “a fugitive, a terror suspect facing serious allegations.”
The Turkish government has said that followers of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen were behind both
the Turkish investigation and the U.S. case, as well as the 2016 failed coup in Turkey. Gulen has denied the accusations.
Reporting By Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Alistair Bell
( Gagrule )
Jurors issued their verdict on the fourth day of deliberations.
Erdogan has publicly dismissed the case as a politically motivated attack on his government.
Zarrab pleaded guilty and testified against Atilla.
you can choose willfully to help Iran and other sanctioned nations evade U.S. law,
or you can choose to be part of the international banking community transacting in U.S. dollars,” Joon Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney
in Manhattan, said in a statement after the verdict was read.
“But you can’t do both.”