GERMAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UAE-BASED MAYROW

S E C R E T BERLIN 003554

SIPDIS

STATE FOR ISN, NEA, EUR, AND DOC/BIS
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/20/2026
TAGS: ETTC PARM PREL AEMR GM IR
SUBJECT: GERMAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UAE-BASED MAYROW
GENERAL TRADING

REF: A. BERLIN 2387

B. SECSTATE 130845

Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason
s 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (S) Global Affairs officer discussed WMD nonproliferation
issues with German MFA Export Control Desk Officer Andreas
Kauke December 4. Kauke provided a German-language nonpaper
in response to ref B demarche concerning the procurement
efforts by a Berlin-based man, Akbar Ashraf Vaghefi, and a
Dusseldorf-based firm, IKCO Trading GmbH, for dual-use
components for the UAE-based entity, Mayrow General Trading.


2. (S) Begin text of unofficial embassy translation of the
German-language nonpaper:

Regarding the nonpaper from August 9, 2006 (Wassenaar
Arrangement) concerning the General Order on the UAE-based
firm Mayrow General Trading for its attempt to procure
components for the production of improvised explosive devices
(IEDs),allow us to bring the following information to the
attention of the U.S. authorities:

-- We thank you for the information concerning the
aforementioned procurement attempt, in which the
Dusseldorf-based firm IKCO Trading GmbH and a Berlin
resident, Mr. Akbar Ashraf Vaghefi, are supposedly involved.
As we could establish -- and as announced -- the General
Order against the firm Mayrow as well as the firm IKCO
Trading GmbH and Mr. Vaghefi has been expanded.

-- Examinations by the responsible authorities have revealed
that the trading company IKCO Trading is either a subsidiary
company or a procurement organization, as well as a
representative, of the Industrial Development and Renovation
Organization of Iran (IDRO) for the automobile industry,
which possibly also has military connections. We have no
concrete proliferation-relevant information concerning either
the firm IKCO or Mr. Akbar Ashraf Vaghefi. Current export
connections between IKCO Trading could not be established
with the firm Mayrow.

-- An examination of exports supposedly by the firm IKCO
Trading is still supposed to occur this year. The
responsible authorities will especially take into account the
facts that you described to them in their investigation.
Should this examination or an even more precise planned
examination of Mr. Vaghefi result in information, we will
report to you right away.

-- We know, in addition, that the components mentioned in the
nonpaper are general-purpose materials of the simplest type,
which are not listed and therefore difficult to check.

We are pleased with the continuing outstanding cooperation in
the area of export controls.

End text of German-language nonpaper.
KOENIG