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Halkbank’s second foreign sovereign immunity claim rejected by US Supreme Court

By Samuel Rubenfeld ( October 6, 2025, 15:17 GMT | Insight) -- The US Supreme Court declined to hear a second attempt by Turkish state-owned lender Halkbank to claim foreign sovereign immunity against money laundering and other criminal charges for allegedly helping Iran evade sanctions. In its petition for a writ of certiorari on the common law sovereign immunity claim, Halkbank had said an appellate decision authorized the first criminal trial of a foreign state-owned instrumentality in world history.The US Supreme Court declined to hear a second attempt by Turkish state-owned lender Halkbank to claim foreign sovereign immunity against money laundering and other criminal charges for allegedly helping Iran evade sanctions....

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