INFORMATION DELIVERED ON IRANIAN FINANCIAL

S E C R E T BERLIN 001776 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN AND EUR E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/19/2017 TAGS: KNNP MNUC EFIN IR BA GM SUBJECT: INFORMATION DELIVERED ON IRANIAN FINANCIAL TRANSFERS ROUTED THROUGH DRESDNER BANK REF: STATE 129815 Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (S) Global Affairs officer delivered reftel demarche September 18 to MFA International Economic and Financial Policy Desk Officer Claudia Schuett and Economics Ministry Foreign Trade Law Desk Officer Ernst Roeder-Messell. Schuett and Roeder-Messell undertook to pass the information to relevant German ministries and to sensitize Dresdner Bank to the matter. Schuett and Roeder-Messell noted the difficulties banks have in terms of seeing exactly what business activities some of their clients are involved in. Nonetheless, Schuett said, banks take the matter of reputational risk seriously. For this reason, Roeder-Messell speculated, it is unlikely that Dresdner Bank was witting that Mohammad Javad Jafari had used the bank to route payments in support of proliferation-related activities. ¶2. (S) Schuett asked if Jafari was the subject of any UN, U.S. Executive Order, or OFAC designations. Roeder-Messell inquired whether the USG would be able to provide additional identifier information (e.g., passport number, date of birth, etc.),noting that vague identifiers often cause banks to overreact in cases involving common names. Both Schuett and Roeder-Messell said they would keep us informed of any German Government or Dresdner Bank action in this case. TIMKEN JR