Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges
Bloomberg.com · 10/10/2019 · by Nick Wadhams,Saleha Mohsin,Stephanie Baker,Jennifer Jacobs
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gold+trader+Reza+Zarrab+++Trump&view=detail&mid=1798E10C1585F9887B0C1798E10C1585F9887B0C&FORM=VIRETrump tried to interfere in probe of Turkish-Iranian gold trader – report
U.S. President Donald Trump sought to interfere in a legal case against a gold trader accused of breaching sanctions on Iran, urging then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to persuade the Justice Department to drop the matter, Bloomberg reported.
Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, accused of using fictitious trades worth billions of dollars to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran, was a client of Rudi Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. Bloomberg cited three people familiar with a 2017 meeting at the Oval Office at which Trump made the request to Tillerson.
Zarrab, who enjoyed close ties to top Turkish politicians and bankers, later turned state-witness in a trial on the same charges as Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a senior banker at Turkey’s state-run Halkbank. The trial, which ended in Atilla’s conviction, sparked outrage among senior Turkish figures including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a diplomatic crisis with Washington.
https://ahvalnews.com/us-turkey/trump-tried-interfere-probe-turkish-iranian-gold-trader-reportAnd this related article.
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