Iran Targets Turkey Gold Trader Over Oil Billions, Lawmaker Says - Bloomberg:
"An Iranian investigation into $2.7 billion of missing oil funds has concluded that Turkey-based gold trader Riza Sarraf may know the whereabouts of the money, a lawmaker involved in the probe said.
Sarraf, who was detained in Istanbul on separate corruption charges last year and released in February, helped jailed Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani transfer the oil revenues out of Iran, said legislator Amir Abbas Soltani, a member of the investigative committee set up last year to find the money.
Sarraf “didn’t just have one hand in this, he had all his hands tied up in what happened,” Soltani said in an interview in Tehran on Oct. 7. Sarraf was “definitely” involved in efforts by Zanjani to deposit the money in investments and assets outside Iran, Soltani said, citing information in his possession."
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