Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank under federal indictment for allegedly helping Iran evade U.S. economic sanctions, has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to allow its lawyers to enter a special appearance in the case without acknowledging the charges against it.
Andrew Hruska, a King & Spalding partner who has represented Halkbank in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said in a letter Tuesday that he had petitioned the Second Circuit for mandamus after a federal judge shut down the bank’s request earlier this month.
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