{"id":9478,"date":"2012-03-30T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-s-africas-mtn-slides-on-iran-corruption-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:31","slug":"update-1-s-africas-mtn-slides-on-iran-corruption-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africas-mtn-slides-on-iran-corruption-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa&#8217;s MTN slides on Iran corruption lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds detail and background, updates shares)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Suit alleges &#8220;orchestra of corruption&#8221; by MTN<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Case threatens to tarnish flagship post-apartheid firm<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Alleges MTN swayed South Africa vote on Iran at IAEA<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares in MTN down 3 percent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Shares in MTN Group<br \/>\n slid on Friday after rival Turkcell filed a<br \/>\n$4.2 billion suit against the South African mobile operator,<br \/>\nalleging it bribed officials and lobbied support for Tehran&#8217;s<br \/>\nnuclear programme to win an Iranian licence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turkcell, which lost the 2004 bid for the Iranian licence to<br \/>\nMTN, filed the suit in a U.S. federal court in Washington,<br \/>\naccusing the Johannesburg-based firm of using its influence with<br \/>\nPretoria to arrange support for Iran&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Turkcell case threatens to tarnish the reputation of<br \/>\nboth MTN &#8211; a black-run company widely seen as a post-apartheid<br \/>\nsuccess story &#8211; and the South African government, including<br \/>\nformer President Thabo Mbeki.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds detail and background, updates shares) * Suit alleges &#8220;orchestra of corruption&#8221; by MTN * Case threatens to tarnish flagship post-apartheid firm * Alleges MTN swayed South Africa vote on Iran at IAEA * Shares in MTN down 3 percent By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Shares in MTN Group slid on Friday [&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-9478","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\/9478","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=9478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}