Rza Zarrab
Baku / 04.12.18 / Turan: Turkish authorities consider wrong the verdict against the deputy director general of Turkish Halkbank Mehmet Hakan Attila in the case of violation of sanctions against Iran, reads the statement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, published on Thursday, January 4. On January 3, a jury in New York recognized Mehmet Hakan Attila as guilty of trying to help Iran circumvent US sanctions. He is accused of having conspired with the Turkish-Iranian businessman Rza Zarrab to this end. During the investigation, Zarrab said that he bribed representatives of the Turkish authorities, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approved the collusion.
Earlier, an Iranian of the Azerbaijani origin, Rza Zarrab, was arrested and extradited to the United States after allegations of money laundering, bribery, illegal gold trading, trade with Iran, contrary to Western sanctions. -02D-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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