Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BERLIN1000
2007-05-16 15:30:00
SECRET
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:  

(S) SHIELD S59A-05: GERMAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS

Tags:  PARM PREL ETTC GM IR AE 
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PP RUEHDE
DE RUEHRL #1000 1361530
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 161530Z MAY 07
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8297
INFO RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI PRIORITY 0134
RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI PRIORITY 0088
S E C R E T BERLIN 001000 

SIPDIS

STATE FOR ISN/CB AND EUR/AGS
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/15/2032
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC GM IR AE
SUBJECT: (S) SHIELD S59A-05: GERMAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IRANIAN CBW-RELATED PROCUREMENT

REF: A. BERLIN 600

B. STATE 34341

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

S E C R E T BERLIN 001000

SIPDIS

STATE FOR ISN/CB AND EUR/AGS
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/15/2032
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC GM IR AE
SUBJECT: (S) SHIELD S59A-05: GERMAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IRANIAN CBW-RELATED PROCUREMENT

REF: A. BERLIN 600

B. STATE 34341

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


1. (U) This is an action request -- please see paragraph 5.


2. (S) German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer
Andreas Kauke passed to Global Affairs officer May 10 a
German Government request concerning ref B demarche. Kauke
said the German Federal Office of Customs Investigations
(ZKA) had opened an investigation into Nippon Express
(Deutschland) GmbH's shipment of a reaction vessel to
Samamicro Company in Iran (ref B). The German authorities
checked with the German Federal Economic and Export Licensing
Agency (BAFA) for an application by Nippon Express to export
the reaction vessel either to Al Minzal Medical Equipment and
Instruments in the UAE, which ref B cites as a facilitator of
the transfer, or to Samamicro in Iran. BAFA has no record of
such an export application, nor does Al Minzal appear on any
export license applications in BAFA's files, according to
Kauke.


3. (S) Kauke said the ZKA traced a shipment that may
correspond to the one cited in ref B by Nippon Express to
Samamicro Company and passed the information to the German
Federal Prosecutor General (GBA) for further investigation.
Kauke noted that Nippon Express may have only acted as the
freight forwarder of this shipment, but that the authorities
would investigate all links to this case and look for the
original exporter, if one existed. Kauke also said the
German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) knows of Al
Minzal's business associations with Samamicro and will
investigate further.


4. (S) With the information uncovered so far by German
authorities, Kauke said the German federal prosecutors are
interested in the case. The prosecutors suspect that Al
Minzal is connected to a WMD suppliers ring working on behalf
of Iran but need to acquire evidence to take legal action
against German firms connected with it. Kauke requested that
the USG provide information useable in a court of law to the
German federal prosecutors for this case.


5. (U) ACTION REQUEST: Post requests guidance on how to
respond to the Germany query for additional information.
TIMKEN JR