MFA DELIVERS LAST RESPONSES TO LONG-PENDING

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 000380 SIPDIS SIPDIS JUSTICE FOR DAVID WARNER E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/30/2022 TAGS: EFIN KTFN PREL SNAR JO SUBJECT: MFA DELIVERS LAST RESPONSES TO LONG-PENDING JUDICIAL COOPERATION REQUESTS REF: 06 AMMAN 6706 Classified By: Ambassador David Hale, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (C) The legal office of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry delivered to LEGATT January 28 the final outstanding tranche of documents responding to pending Department of Justice requests for judicial cooperation. ¶2. (C) LEGATT obtained custody of 15 binders of certified documents. The majority of the documents related to the Safah Group request relayed to the Jordanian government by Diplomatic Note 431 on April 26, 2006. ¶3. (C) COMMENT: These are the final remaining cases responding to requests dating back as far as 2004. This success comes after years of intensive and continuous engagement with the highest levels of the Jordanian government. The Foreign Ministry continues to make clear that it is Jordan's accession to international agreements on terrorist financing and narcotics that allows bank secrecy rules to be lifted in these cases. Bank secrecy will continue to prevent the prompt sharing of account information in cases not involving terrorist financing or narcotics. HALE