Murat Özdemir, a father of three children and the owner of a company serving the software and defense industry based in Dubai, who divorced his wife in July 2022, and Ebru Gündeş, who lives in Dubai for the education of his daughter Alara and goes frequently to Turkey for his concerts, are in Dubai. It was claimed that he also got married.
In his testimony, Zarrab implicated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the international money laundering scheme that he and Atilla ran between 2010 and 2015 that allowed Iran to access international markets despite U.S. sanctions. The case of Halkbank has been one of the main points of disagreement between Ankara and Washington, whose relations have plunged into crisis this year over a host of issues, including policy in Syria and Turkey’s defense purchases.
