ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Bijan Rafiekian, former partner in the consultancy firm of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has been found guilty on charges of conspiracy and of acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey.
A jury in the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia concluded that Rafiekian, former vice chair of the now-defunct Flynn Intel Group (FIG), and Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman, conspired to lobby in the United States on behalf of Turkey in 2016 without disclosing it to the U.S. government.
