Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07DUSHANBE1611
2007-11-14 03:45:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dushanbe
Cable title:
FATF/IRAN STATEMENT - TAJIK SUPPORT ON THE FINANCIAL FRONT
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UNCLAS DUSHANBE 001611
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR ISN, T, TREASURY, SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON TI
SUBJECT: FATF/IRAN STATEMENT - TAJIK SUPPORT ON THE FINANCIAL FRONT
REF: STATE 149648
UNCLAS DUSHANBE 001611
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR ISN, T, TREASURY, SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON TI
SUBJECT: FATF/IRAN STATEMENT - TAJIK SUPPORT ON THE FINANCIAL FRONT
REF: STATE 149648
1. (SBU) Post delivered the demarche (reftel) regarding the
Financial Action Task Force warning on Iran's financial system
to Tajik officials, who promised to pass the warning through
"quiet channels" to Tajik financial institutions.
2. (SBU) EconOff delivered demarche to Zamira Hurshedovna, Head
of the National Bank's Banking Supervision Department November
11, and to Deputy Minister of Finance Jamoliddin Nuraliev
November 1. Nuraliev informed EconOff that the Ministry of
Finance does not deal with banking compliance issues.
Hurshedovna was fully supportive of the Financial Action Task
Force statement, and promised that she would inform Tajik
financial institutions about the dangers of dealing with Iranian
financial institutions.
3. (SBU) Currently, Tajik banks do not have any relationships
with Iranian banks, according to Hurshedovna. One Iranian bank,
Tejerat Bank, has an operational branch in Tajikistan. This
branch is a non-Islamic branch of an Islamic bank, but
Hurshedovna believes that the bank only serves Iranian business
clients in Tajikistan. The branch does not accept large-scale
deposits and deals only with traders and citizens of Iran.
4. (SBU) Tajikistan lacks a money laundering law, and the
legislative draft has gone back to parliament, after an initial
draft on terrorist financing removed the money laundering
component entirely. This limits the Tajik government's ability
to go after potential financial crimes. The Agency of State
Financial Control and Anti-Corruption has the lead in
prosecuting financial crimes. The World Bank is currently
providing assistance to this agency to improve its technical
capacity.
JACOBSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR ISN, T, TREASURY, SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON TI
SUBJECT: FATF/IRAN STATEMENT - TAJIK SUPPORT ON THE FINANCIAL FRONT
REF: STATE 149648
1. (SBU) Post delivered the demarche (reftel) regarding the
Financial Action Task Force warning on Iran's financial system
to Tajik officials, who promised to pass the warning through
"quiet channels" to Tajik financial institutions.
2. (SBU) EconOff delivered demarche to Zamira Hurshedovna, Head
of the National Bank's Banking Supervision Department November
11, and to Deputy Minister of Finance Jamoliddin Nuraliev
November 1. Nuraliev informed EconOff that the Ministry of
Finance does not deal with banking compliance issues.
Hurshedovna was fully supportive of the Financial Action Task
Force statement, and promised that she would inform Tajik
financial institutions about the dangers of dealing with Iranian
financial institutions.
3. (SBU) Currently, Tajik banks do not have any relationships
with Iranian banks, according to Hurshedovna. One Iranian bank,
Tejerat Bank, has an operational branch in Tajikistan. This
branch is a non-Islamic branch of an Islamic bank, but
Hurshedovna believes that the bank only serves Iranian business
clients in Tajikistan. The branch does not accept large-scale
deposits and deals only with traders and citizens of Iran.
4. (SBU) Tajikistan lacks a money laundering law, and the
legislative draft has gone back to parliament, after an initial
draft on terrorist financing removed the money laundering
component entirely. This limits the Tajik government's ability
to go after potential financial crimes. The Agency of State
Financial Control and Anti-Corruption has the lead in
prosecuting financial crimes. The World Bank is currently
providing assistance to this agency to improve its technical
capacity.
JACOBSON