TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF

C O N F I D E N T I A L ATHENS 000081 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/20/2019 TAGS: GR EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER IR SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF DESIGNATION OF FOUR AL-QAIDA ASSOCIATES DETAINED OR FORMERLY DETAINED IN IRAN REF: SECSTATE 4313 ¶1. (C) On January 21, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. They indicated that they will pass on this information to relevant offices within their institutions (which in turn will pass on the information to entities under their supervision, such as private banks),but had no substantive reply at this time. Poloff shared the same information on January 20 with MFA D1 Directorate (International Organizations and UN Affairs) Counselor Dimitrios Papandreou and solicited Greek support. Post will continue to engage with the GoG on these issues and will report any significant developments. SPECKHARD