Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09ROME347
2009-03-24 16:37:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY OFFERS INFO OF POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000347
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT PASS TO ICE/DRO, ICE/IAO, ICISN/CPI:RUGGIERO,
ISN/RA: MENKHOFF
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2019
TAGS: KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM
SUBJECT: ITALY OFFERS INFO OF POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS
VIOLATIONS BY US COMPANY
REF: A. STATE 8305
B. ROME 83
C. ROME 178
Classified By: Economic Minister Counselor Tom Delare
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L ROME 000347
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT PASS TO ICE/DRO, ICE/IAO, ICISN/CPI:RUGGIERO,
ISN/RA: MENKHOFF
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2019
TAGS: KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM
SUBJECT: ITALY OFFERS INFO OF POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS
VIOLATIONS BY US COMPANY
REF: A. STATE 8305
B. ROME 83
C. ROME 178
Classified By: Economic Minister Counselor Tom Delare
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4.
2. (C) Summary: On 17 March an Italian Ministry of Trade
official shared with Econoff documents indicating that
Worthington, a US company, may be attempting to use its
Italian subsidiary to export pumps and spare parts to Iran in
possible contravention of US sanctions. The official also
provided additional customs information on a separate pending
case involving exports of potentially dual-use
pressure-regulating valves to Iran. Post has provided these
documents to ISN and has shared them with ICE, which is
investigating. End Summary.
3. (C) In response to ref A Department request concerning
potentially illicit exports to Iran (ref B),Giovanni Ramella
Zampa, a senior Ministry of Trade official responsible for
export controls, handed Econoff additional customs documents
on 17 March. The stated end user is the Pars Oil and Gas
Company in Teheran. Zampa said that the requested export
license would likely be rejected, but that the GOI was still
seeking additional information from the USG on the export.
Zampa said that technically the 180-day deadline for
approving or rejecting the export license had passed.
However, he added that the Italian government would likely
delay a final decision until the export license committee's
next meeting, in mid-April, in order to gather additional
information that might strengthen the grounds for a rejection
of the application. Zampa also explained that Italian courts
can and do exercise judicial review over the Ministry of
Trade's export license determinations.
4. (C) Post requests appropriate additional guidance by 13
April on whether these additional details reinforce the
proliferation concerns raised in reftel B.
5. (C) Zampa also shared documents indicating that
Flowserve, an Italian subsidiary of US-based Worthington, was
exporting what appeared to be ordinary, non-dual use
diesel-powered pumps and related parts to Iran. He wondered
whether the Worthington parent in the US was aware of its
subsidiary's actions. Zampa said he volunteered this
information because he wanted the USG to be aware of a
possible violation of its restrictive sanctions on Iran.
Post has passed this information to ICE.
DIBBLE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT PASS TO ICE/DRO, ICE/IAO, ICISN/CPI:RUGGIERO,
ISN/RA: MENKHOFF
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/23/2019
TAGS: KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM
SUBJECT: ITALY OFFERS INFO OF POSSIBLE IRAN SANCTIONS
VIOLATIONS BY US COMPANY
REF: A. STATE 8305
B. ROME 83
C. ROME 178
Classified By: Economic Minister Counselor Tom Delare
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4.
2. (C) Summary: On 17 March an Italian Ministry of Trade
official shared with Econoff documents indicating that
Worthington, a US company, may be attempting to use its
Italian subsidiary to export pumps and spare parts to Iran in
possible contravention of US sanctions. The official also
provided additional customs information on a separate pending
case involving exports of potentially dual-use
pressure-regulating valves to Iran. Post has provided these
documents to ISN and has shared them with ICE, which is
investigating. End Summary.
3. (C) In response to ref A Department request concerning
potentially illicit exports to Iran (ref B),Giovanni Ramella
Zampa, a senior Ministry of Trade official responsible for
export controls, handed Econoff additional customs documents
on 17 March. The stated end user is the Pars Oil and Gas
Company in Teheran. Zampa said that the requested export
license would likely be rejected, but that the GOI was still
seeking additional information from the USG on the export.
Zampa said that technically the 180-day deadline for
approving or rejecting the export license had passed.
However, he added that the Italian government would likely
delay a final decision until the export license committee's
next meeting, in mid-April, in order to gather additional
information that might strengthen the grounds for a rejection
of the application. Zampa also explained that Italian courts
can and do exercise judicial review over the Ministry of
Trade's export license determinations.
4. (C) Post requests appropriate additional guidance by 13
April on whether these additional details reinforce the
proliferation concerns raised in reftel B.
5. (C) Zampa also shared documents indicating that
Flowserve, an Italian subsidiary of US-based Worthington, was
exporting what appeared to be ordinary, non-dual use
diesel-powered pumps and related parts to Iran. He wondered
whether the Worthington parent in the US was aware of its
subsidiary's actions. Zampa said he volunteered this
information because he wanted the USG to be aware of a
possible violation of its restrictive sanctions on Iran.
Post has passed this information to ICE.
DIBBLE