Lawyers Prepare Terror Cases Against South African Telecoms Giant, Banks

Published on April 1, 2024

JOHANNESBURG—The lawyer leading an investigation into Africa’s biggest telecoms company says the evidence he’s collected so far will show the Johannesburg-based MTN Group “did business with Iranian terrorist front companies that financed deadly terrorist attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Ryan Sparacino, founding partner of Sparacino PLLC law firm in Washington, achieved a major legal victory over MTN in September when a judge in New York ruled his case against the company could proceed under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. Mr. Sparacino is representing 67 American citizens killed or injured by terrorist attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2011 and 2019, and their families....

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