Camelia Jamshidy

An indictment for Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-born Turkish businessman who was arrested in Miami a month ago over attempting to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran, has expanded from New York to include "Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere" as places where the crime may have been committed. 

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 21 that Iranian origin Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab had been arrested on charges of "engaging in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of transactions on behalf of the government of Iran and other Iranian entities, which were barred by U.S.

Companies based in Turkey, as well as others in Iran and elsewhere, have been used in Money laundering operations by Reza Zerrab and other suspects, according to an indictment prepared by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.