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Supreme Court justices grill lawyers of Turkey’s Halkbank

Can a Turkish government-owned bank be prosecuted by the U.S. government for money laundering and fraud? That’s a question the Supreme Court will have to answer. Halkbank was first indicted in 2019. U.S. prosecutors accused the bank of laundering billions of dollars of revenue made by the sale of Iranian oil and natural gas. The U.S. government said it was the “largest-known conspiracy to evade the United States’s economic sanctions on Iran.” Here’s the catch, the company’s biggest stakeholder is the Turkish government, so they argue they’re immune from prosecution under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Follow Straight Arrow News on social media — Facebook:   / straightarrownews   Twitter:   / straightarrow__   Instagram:   / straightarrownews   TikTok:   / straightarrownews