A witness in U.S. custody is detailing a multi-billion-dollar sanction-busting scheme involving Iran and Turkey. But President Trump keeps protecting Turkey.
Trump remains sympathetic to Erdogan's concerns about Halkbank, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who chairs the Judiciary Committee and is among the president's closest allies. Trump"wants to be helpful within the limits of his power" in the"case involving the Turkish bank,"Graham had with a Russian prankster impersonating Turkey's minister of defense in August.
The Halkbank indictment does not name individuals who might be subject to extradition. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, which filed the indictment, declined to comment on Zarrab's cooperation, whether it might be seeking arrests of those involved in the scheme or the timing of the indictment.
They say it was Zarrab's cooperation and subsequent law-enforcement work to corroborate his information that helped build out the indictment against the bank last month.Reza Zarrab is taken to police headquarters in Istanbul on Dec. 17, 2013.Days after the U.S.
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