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U.S. fight over Zarrab's release rekindles Turkey bribe plot - Chicago Tribune

U.S. fight over Zarrab's release rekindles Turkey bribe plot
Patricia Hurtado,Benjamin Harvey and Isobel Finkel, (c) 2016, Bloomberg(c) 2016, Bloomberg

The U.S. government's efforts to deny bail to a 33-year-old gold trader has rekindled allegations of a multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving Turkey's former EU minister, a charity close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the chief executive officer of a major state bank.

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