Iranian sanctions evasion using false transactions through Turkey

On 16 May 2018, Turkey's state-controlled bank Halkbank's deputy general manager (Mehmet Hakan Atilla) was sentenced following a January 2018 conviction for helping Iran evade US sanctions. He helped Iran spend oil money abroad using fake gold and food transactions as cover. The central figure in the scheme was a Turkish-Iranian gold trader  (Reza Zarra…