“You will hear it from the inside, from Reza Zarrab. “This trial is really the Reza Zarrab show,” lawyer Victor Rocco told jurors. Zarrab was a key figure in a 2013 Turkish corruption scandal in which he allegedly bribed four ministers to facilitate sanctions-busting trade and other deals. Ankara says US court case ‘plot against Turkey’Denton suggested to jurors that Zarrab’s testimony would shed light on that corruption case, which Ankara has sought to smother since 2013. Turkey has denounced both the New York trial and the 2013 scandal as conspiracies by the US-based dissident preacher Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of a 2016 failed coup targeting Erdogan.

Source: The Express Tribune November 29, 2017 07:41 UTC