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