{"id":9863,"date":"2012-04-12T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/mtn-denies-turkcell-charges-of-corruption-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:10:04","slug":"mtn-denies-turkcell-charges-of-corruption-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mtn-denies-turkcell-charges-of-corruption-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN denies Turkcell charges of corruption in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s MTN<br \/>\n on Thursday denied allegations it used corrupt<br \/>\npractices and promises of military weapons to win its licence in<br \/>\nIran, the first time the mobile operator has clearly rejected<br \/>\nthe two-month old charges from rival Turkcell.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any suggestion that Turkcell&#8217;s failure to obtain the<br \/>\nlicence was as a result of any alleged corrupt or improper<br \/>\npractices by MTN is unfounded,&#8221; MTN&#8217;s CEO Sifiso Dabengwa said<br \/>\nin a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegation that MTN influenced South African foreign<br \/>\npolicy with regard to its armaments and nuclear position is<br \/>\nsimply ludicrous and has already been dismissed by the South<br \/>\nAfrican government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MTN has previously said that it believes the case &#8211; which<br \/>\nwas filed by Turkcell in a U.S. court late last month &#8211; lacks<br \/>\nlegal merit.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by David Dolan, editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s MTN on Thursday denied allegations it used corrupt practices and promises of military weapons to win its licence in Iran, the first time the mobile operator has clearly rejected the two-month old charges from rival Turkcell. &#8220;Any suggestion that Turkcell&#8217;s failure to obtain the licence was as a [&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-9863","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\/9863","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=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}