Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07SANAA2045
2007-11-04 09:23:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Sanaa
Cable title:
FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
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C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 002045
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PLEASE PASS TO TFFC FOR LADAN ARCHIN
NEA/ARP FOR NATASHA FRANCESCHI
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN NESS FOR ALEX BURKART
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN CPI FOR MICHELLE NEW
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/04/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN PTER YM
SUBJECT: FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: SECSTATE 149648
Classified By: A/DCM Mike E. Sarhan, for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L SANAA 002045
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PLEASE PASS TO TFFC FOR LADAN ARCHIN
NEA/ARP FOR NATASHA FRANCESCHI
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN NESS FOR ALEX BURKART
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN CPI FOR MICHELLE NEW
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/04/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN PTER YM
SUBJECT: FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: SECSTATE 149648
Classified By: A/DCM Mike E. Sarhan, for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on October 31 to
the ROYG National Anti-Money Launderng Committee (NAMLC)
Chairman Ahmed Ghaleb. Also attending the meeting were
Mohammed Al-Wareeth of the Yemen Bankers Association, Said
Al-Khamery of the Ministry of Interior, Omer Ibrahim of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Amin Hassan of the Central
Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Information Unit. Ghaleb
promised that he would disseminate reftel points. He
admitted that the ROYG has had problems in the past with
Iran, who had allegedly financed the April 2007 Houthi revolt
in Sa'ada (northern Yemen). According to Ghaleb, information
about Iranian financial tranactions in Yemen is
"automatically" shared between Yemeni banks and ROYG national
security institutions.
2. (C) Emboffs also delivered reftel demarche on October 31
to ROYG Ministry of Foreign Affairs First Secretary Abdullah
Mossalam Al-Socotry, who opined that reftel points were "too
general" and requested that there be a mutual exchange of
specific information on suspicious Iranian financial
transactions in Yemen between the United States Government
and the ROYG.
SECHE
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC PLEASE PASS TO TFFC FOR LADAN ARCHIN
NEA/ARP FOR NATASHA FRANCESCHI
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN NESS FOR ALEX BURKART
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO ISN CPI FOR MICHELLE NEW
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/04/2017
TAGS: PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN PTER YM
SUBJECT: FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: SECSTATE 149648
Classified By: A/DCM Mike E. Sarhan, for reasons 1.4(b) and (d)
1. (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on October 31 to
the ROYG National Anti-Money Launderng Committee (NAMLC)
Chairman Ahmed Ghaleb. Also attending the meeting were
Mohammed Al-Wareeth of the Yemen Bankers Association, Said
Al-Khamery of the Ministry of Interior, Omer Ibrahim of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Amin Hassan of the Central
Bank's Anti-Money Laundering Information Unit. Ghaleb
promised that he would disseminate reftel points. He
admitted that the ROYG has had problems in the past with
Iran, who had allegedly financed the April 2007 Houthi revolt
in Sa'ada (northern Yemen). According to Ghaleb, information
about Iranian financial tranactions in Yemen is
"automatically" shared between Yemeni banks and ROYG national
security institutions.
2. (C) Emboffs also delivered reftel demarche on October 31
to ROYG Ministry of Foreign Affairs First Secretary Abdullah
Mossalam Al-Socotry, who opined that reftel points were "too
general" and requested that there be a mutual exchange of
specific information on suspicious Iranian financial
transactions in Yemen between the United States Government
and the ROYG.
SECHE