iran is subject to crippling economic sanctions, international trade, international business with iran and most parts of the world is a serious criminal acts in violation of the sanctions so running an enter national money laundering operation to facilitate lots of different people being able to evade those sanctions and illegally do business with iran to the tune of billions of dollars, i mean, that was a huge national security case, but that was also a real kingpin-type operation for sbny but they got the guy and put him on trial. that s how they were going after this rich turkish gold trader they arrested in 2016. the gold trader did not appear to be running this scheme totally under ground, totally on his say so without anybody knowing about it. he had, it turned out, very, very close ties to the glove of turkey, to the president of turk turkey erdogan and his family. when hi got arrested in 2016,
international business with iran and most parts of the world is a serious criminal acts in violation of the sanctions so running an enter national money laundering operation to facilitate lots of different people being able to evade those sanctions and illegally do business with iran to the tune of billions of dollars, i mean, that was a huge national security case, but that was also a real kingpin-type operation for sbny but they got the guy and put him on trial. that s how they were going after this rich turkish gold trader they arrested in 2016. the gold trader did not appear to be running this scheme totally under ground, totally on his say so without anybody knowing about it. he had, it turned out, very, very close ties to the glove of turkey, to the president of turkey erdogan and his family. when hi got arrested in 2016,