The latest at the New York trial of a Turkish banker accused of laundering Iranian oil money (all times local):1:15 p.m.A Turkish-Iranian gold trader says he paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to the head of a Turkish bank to help evade U.S. sanctions against Iran. Zarrab took the witness stand as part of a plea deal in the prosecution of another Halkbank official charged in the case. He testified that he never paid bribes to the defendant because he was already bribing the defendant's boss and the Turkish finance minister. The star witness in the Iran economic sanctions trial of a Turkish banker has arrived in a New York courtroom looking less like a prisoner and more like the gold trader he is. As court began Thursday, Zarrab credited his lawyers for his new look: a dark suit jacket and slacks.

Source: Fox News November 30, 2017 18:11 UTC