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Turkish banker accused of helping Iran launder money seeks mistrial |
2017-12-15 |
[Ynet] Lawyers for a The lawyers for Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's majority state-owned Halkbank, said the jury had been "tainted" after hearing Huseyin Korkmaz testify in Manhattan federal court this week that he feared he would be tortured if he returned to Turkey, where he led an investigation involving "Associating the defendant with the specter of mindless and cruel political violence at the hands of his government-based alleged co-conspirators is almost guaranteed to inflame the jury against the defendant," the lawyers said. |
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