US seeks about 20 years prison for Turkish banker in Iran sanctions case

Update: 2018-04-05 20:35 IST

US prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to sentence a Turkish banker convicted of helping Iran evade US sanctions to about 20 years in prison.

Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former executive at Turkey's state-controlled Halkbank, had been convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan in January, in a case that strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey.

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