Tuesday, March 22, 2016

U.S. arrest of Iranian gold trader reopens wounds in Turkish graft scandal

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The arrest of an Iranian gold trader whom Turkish prosecutors placed at the heart of a Turkish government graft scandal two years ago hit shares in a state-run bank on Tuesday and raised opposition hopes that new light would be shed on a case it said was covered up. Reza Zarrab, 33, an Iranian-born Turkish citizen, was arrested in Florida by U.S. authorities on Saturday on charges that he and two Iranians conspired to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in financial t


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