Identifier
Created
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05AMMAN6782
2005-08-23 11:45:00
SECRET
Embassy Amman
Cable title:  

(S) IRAQ FRE ASSETS: AL-SADUN

Tags:  ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IZ JO LVPR 
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S E C R E T AMMAN 006782 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS - J SALOOM, S/CT - T KUSHNER
STATE ALSO FOR NEA/ELA - D BARON, NEA/I - J VOLZ
TREASURY FOR J GARDNER AND OFAC - B WERNER

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/23/2015
TAGS: ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IZ JO LVPR
SUBJECT: (S) IRAQ FRE ASSETS: AL-SADUN

REF: STATE 149954

Classified By: CDA CHRISTOPHER HENZEL FOR REASONS 1.4 B, C AND D

S E C R E T AMMAN 006782

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS - J SALOOM, S/CT - T KUSHNER
STATE ALSO FOR NEA/ELA - D BARON, NEA/I - J VOLZ
TREASURY FOR J GARDNER AND OFAC - B WERNER

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/23/2015
TAGS: ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KTFN IZ JO LVPR
SUBJECT: (S) IRAQ FRE ASSETS: AL-SADUN

REF: STATE 149954

Classified By: CDA CHRISTOPHER HENZEL FOR REASONS 1.4 B, C AND D


1. (S) Acting Econ/C August 14 delivered reftel background
paper to Central Bank of Jordan Deputy Governor Faris Sharaf
and requested that he inquire closely into the case and share
with us any information that he or the CBJ fraud
investigation unit might uncover. Sharaf said that he would
personally oversee inquiries into the referenced account,
initially remarking that he considered it an
urgent matter and that he would start by checking the banks
in al-Wahdat, a possible location for the account noted in
the background paper.


2. (S) On August 21, Sharaf reported by telephone that he
could say with confidence that the account noted reftel was
not located in any/any of Jordan's 23 banks. The name was
very specific (giving all four parts of a name),he noted,
and the amount possibly remaining in the account was also
unusual. He added that the CBJ had checked on accounts for
this same person, listed under UNSCR 1483, two times before
earlier this year. One check was done as a result of the
name being added to the UNSCR 1483 list and being circulated
individually, he said. A second time, the CBJ circulated the
complete UNSCR 1483 list and asked banks again to check for
matching accounts. At the conclusion of the telcon, Sharaf
repeated that he was confident that the reftel account does
not exist in any of Jordan's banks.
HENZEL