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Turkish police have summoned an FBI official over the testimony of a former Turkish police investigator in a high-profile U.S. court case involving alleged violations of sanctions on Iran, Turkish news agencies reported.
Turkish media reported on December 13 that a Federal Bureau of Investigation representative at the U.S. Embassy in Istanbul was summoned after Huseyin Korkmaz testified on December 11 that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a target in his 2013 investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering in connection with a scheme to help Iran evade sanctions.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed on December 13 that an FBI attache at the U.S. Embassy "had been brought in to the Turkish ministry." She provided no details.
Korkmaz told jurors at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan that he led a 2012-2013 investigation into high-level corruption in Turkey that was centered on a scheme to help Iran launder $1 billion in revenues from oil and gas sales through U.S. banks in violation of sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear and missile activities.
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