{"id":7592,"date":"2012-02-03T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-2-mtn-says-faces-suit-from-turkcell-over-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:38:16","slug":"update-2-mtn-says-faces-suit-from-turkcell-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-mtn-says-faces-suit-from-turkcell-over-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-MTN says faces suit from Turkcell over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* MTN: Turkcell claims it violated US laws<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Claims of bribery, asking government to back Iran<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* MTN says claims lack legal merit<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts, adds details, comment)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group,<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s largest telecom group, said it faces a potential<br \/>\nlawsuit from rival Turkcell that it asked South<br \/>\nAfrica to back Iran&#8217;s nuclear development in return for a<br \/>\ncellular licence in the country.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg-based MTN said in a statement the Turkish<br \/>\nmobile operator, which unsuccessfully bid for the same licence,<br \/>\nwill also claim that MTN asked South Africa to aid Iran&#8217;s<br \/>\nmilitary and that it bribed officials of both governments.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTN said it was informed by Turkcell about the potential<br \/>\nsuit. Turkcell plans to file the charges in a U.S. court and the<br \/>\nclaim amount would be &#8220;material&#8221;, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officials for Turkcell were not immediately available for<br \/>\ncomment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTN said that none of the claims had been substantiated and<br \/>\nthe charges lacked legal merit.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* MTN: Turkcell claims it violated US laws * Claims of bribery, asking government to back Iran * MTN says claims lack legal merit (Recasts, adds details, comment) By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG, Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; MTN Group, Africa&#8217;s largest telecom group, said it faces a potential lawsuit from rival Turkcell that it asked South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}