SLOVENIA ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT

S E C R E T LJUBLJANA 000870 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/NCE E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/20/2015 TAGS: EFIN KJUS KNNP KTFN KN SI SUBJECT: SLOVENIA ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT FINANCIAL ACTIVITY REF: STATE 220713 Classified By: ADCM CAROLINE MANGELSDORF, REASONS 1.4(B) AND (D). ¶1. (S) Econoff delivered reftel points 16 December to Klaudijo Stroligo, Director of the Office for Money Laundering Prevention at the Slovene Ministry of Finance, and to Bostjan Jerman, security policy staffer at the MFA. Stroligo was not personally aware of the Banco Delta Asia case, but said he would ensure that his staff and his colleagues at Slovene financial institutions "pay special attention" to the matter. Stroligo said he "would be surprised" if Slovene banks had any dealings with banks or other financial institutions in Macau, but promised to alert the domestic financial sector "immediately" of the details given in reftel points. Several times during the discussion, Stroligo told Econoff that Slovenia makes every effort to "strictly follow" international sanctions on entities associated with money laundering or terrorist finance and noted he would work directly with the Treasury Department should domestic investigations uncover anything in the Banco Delta Asia matter. ROBERTSON NNNN