우리은행,IBK 기업은행 1조원 이란 핵무기 거래 자금 통로로 이용.....(아시아경제) 기사는 삭제당하고 내려졌습니다..블룸버그 영문기사 첨부

[진리는타협하지않는다]

....라트비아 은행 3 곳이 북한의 불법자금 지원 혐의 및 돈세탁으로 2주만에 은행정지..

이번에 임종석이가 중동에 간 이유의 전말이 나타날 것 같습니다... 정말 ....

대한민국 은행들이 전처를 밟지 않았으면 좋겠지만...이미 밟아 버렸네요...

대한민국 대표 6개 은행들이 비트코인을 통해 돈세탁 및 북한정권 지원 사실이 확정되는 날에.....

지난번 어떤 분이 미국 CT은행, 영국 SC은행, 그리고 하나은행으로 바꾸라고 글 올려주셨는데 찾으시는 분은

링크 좀 달아 주시길.....

왜 언론에서 이 기사를 삭제 합니까??? 대신 영문판 블룸버그 기사 첨부합니다....아시아경제 기사는 삭제전 캡쳐한 원본 글,,,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/iran-s-sanctions-evasion-moved-east-after-europe-crackdown

The U.S. effort to put Iran in a financial vice was working. European banks were paying big fines and closing off its money flows, and severe sanctions on the country’s banking and energy sectors were forcing it to the table on a nuclear deal. But as U.S. enforcement officials would soon discover, Iran had found a new channel for its illicit transactions: Asia.

Lenders in South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere in the region may have played a part, knowingly or otherwise, in helping Iran evade trade sanctions before the nuclear deal and turn some of its oil proceeds into U.S. dollars, according to court testimony, legal filings and people familiar with the matter.

Now that U.S. enforcers have extracted billions of dollars from European banks over sanctions violations, their focus is turning to Asian banks, according to several former -->-->-->-->U.S. Treasury Department officials who specialize in sanctions work.

“The regulatory gaze and enforcement attention is facing east,” said Juan Zarate, a former Treasury Department and -->-->-->-->White House official who co-founded the Financial Integrity Network, a consulting group that specializes in preventing illicit financial activities. Many Asian banks “haven’t been leading the pack in terms of financial risk management,” he said.

The shift underscores how difficult it can be to enforce international sanctions and keep bad actors out of the U.S. financial system. When one door is closed, another one inevitably opens.

A window on these Asian banks’ transactions comes from court documents and testimony in recent Iran-related cases in Alaska and New York, which included references to how Iran siphoned $1 billion of its funds from escrow accounts at -->-->-->-->Woori Bank and -->-->-->-->Industrial Bank of Korea, state-owned South Korean lenders that are among the largest in the country. Under terms of the U.S. sanctions, those funds were supposed to be off limits for all but a handful of purposes.

Woori Bank shares fell 0.9 percent while Industrial Bank of Korea shares dropped 0.6 percent.

An IBK representative declined to comment. A Woori Bank spokesman acknowledged the bank was under investigation and said it was awaiting the results. He declined to comment further.

In the last two years, New York’s Department of Financial Services has taken action against several Asian banks for various compliance lapses, including the -->-->-->-->Agricultural Bank of China, NongHyup Bank of South Korea and Mega International Commercial Bank of Taiwan. In 2013 and 2014, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ paid more than $560 million in two settlements with New York banking regulators over its relationship with Iran.

Nuclear Deal

The scrutiny of Asian banks’ Iran ties is coming from across the U.S. law enforcement and regulatory spectrum. Over the last year, the Treasury Department has blacklisted 20 people and entities in Asia. They all had ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the country’s support for terrorism, human rights abuses and other criminal activity, Sigal Mandelker, the Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a speech in New York last week.

The transactions under examination occurred before a 2015 multilateral agreement that let Iran resume some normal trade and collect revenue from oil sales while placing limits on Tehran’s nuclear activities. But the newly disclosed Iranian efforts to sidestep international sanctions may feed into President Donald Trump’s claims that Iran can’t be trusted -- and his threats to scrap the agreement.

For years the U.S. has scrutinized European banks for facilitating Iranian access to the U.S. financial system. After nearly a dozen enforcement cases resulting in more than $16 billion in fines, those banks have been largely closed off as a conduit for Iran, former U.S. officials say.

Trading Partners

Iran’s access to Asian financial institutions has been made possible, in part, by continued close ties with several Asian countries that remain robust trading partners -- and consumers of Iranian oil exports -- despite Iran’s years in the international doghouse.

“Oil revenue is big business for a resource economy such as Iran, so they have a balance of trade with all these countries,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former Treasury official who is a senior fellow at the -->-->-->-->Center for a New American Security.

Under the strict sanctions leading up to the nuclear agreement, Iran was allowed to sell oil and gas to overseas buyers. But the proceeds had to be deposited at designated accounts in those countries and could be withdrawn only for limited purposes -- such as paying for humanitarian shipments of food and medicine.

To evade the restrictions, Iran falsified records and created front companies to make transactions appear to be for allowable purchases, according to testimony and filings in the Iran-related cases. Of the roughly $200 billion in Iranian oil and gas funds that wound up in escrow accounts at banks around the world, researchers estimate that more than $50 billion was laundered out and illicitly made available to Iran.

“Iranians were desperate to get this money out of these accounts,” said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive officer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan national-security research group.

Red Flags

Iran was able to extract its $1 billion from the two South Korean banks in less than six months during 2011, before U.S. officials raised red flags about the transactions, according to court documents. But even after those efforts were shut down, the officials said they feared the banks would find other means of continuing to do business as usual with Iran, according to the filings.

Woori Bank sought to establish a relationship with -->-->-->-->Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS, the lender known as Halkbank that was designated to hold Iran’s funds in Turkey, in what authorities suspected was an attempt to allow Iran continued access to the South Korean oil proceeds, according to the testimony.

“We were worried about Woori Bank and IBK, and we were concerned about the transactions that they were engaged in,” David S. Cohen, a former senior -->-->-->-->Central Intelligence Agency and Treasury official, testified during the recent prosecution of a Halkbank banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was -->-->-->convicted of helping Iran get its money out of Turkey. “One of the issues that sort of spun off from that was whether they would try to use Halkbank as their entrée into Iran if other mechanisms and connections were cut off.”

Iran and its enablers portrayed the withdrawals as part of allowable trade between the two countries, according to the testimony and filings. U.S. prosecutors have charged Kenneth Zong, a dual South Korean-American citizen who allegedly executed transactions on Iran’s behalf, with aiding the scheme.

Atilla is in federal custody in New York and will be sentenced later this year.

Extradition Request

Zong, whose attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment, is imprisoned in South Korea for unpaid taxes tied to his work for Iran. U.S. officials have filed an extradition request for his return to face charges in Alaska, where he lived and owned property, after his sentence is complete.

According to an Internal Revenue Service agent’s affidavit in the case file, Zong sent emails to his co-conspirators saying that South Korean government officials and executives at the two banks “know well our transactions are based on fabricated and fake documents” and that he had agreed to pay kickbacks to “bankers and authorities,” calling it an allowance.

Western officials and bank experts say that Iran was taking advantage of Asian banks’ reputation for weak compliance.

Asian banks “don’t differentiate providing financial services for Iran so much as the rest of the world does,” said Jeremy Paner, a Washington lawyer who previously worked for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control. “Their distinction is, ‘We’re not doing it for an armed forces group, so what’s the big deal.’”

(Earlier versions of this article were corrected for the name of Halkbank and the title for Mark Dubowitz.)

— With assistance by Greg Farrell, and Kyungji Cho

http://view.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2018030811484278659

 

[진리는타협하지않는다]

지난번 영국계,미국계 은행으로 바꾸라고 글 올려주셨던 글 링크 부탁드립니다 ... 보통 심각한 상황이 아닌 것 같습니다

[나영]

다시좀 올려 주세요

[기다립니다]

거래 은행을 바꾸는것이 좋을까요?
답댓글 부탁드립니다

[발의무리]

6개 은행은 어디일까요?

[주님만보며]

우리. 기업. 신한. 국민. 농협. 산업. 저도아직 못봐꿨어요

[고다니엘]

대한민국이 사방팔방이 병이 들어서 수술을 할 범위가 많은 것 같습니다.

주여! 진노 중에라도 긍휼을 잊지 마옵소서!

[발의무리]

감사합니다~

헐~~~
우리은행거래하다가
이 얘기듣고 국민은행으로
몽땅 바꿨는데 ㅠ.ㅠ

[요나베드로]

잘하셨습니다. 감사합니다.

[진리안에 자유]

국민도 안돼요 하나은행이나 씨티은행으로 바꾸세요

[우물가의여인1]

만약에 해당은행들 거래정지 시킨다면 경제도 망하는거나 마찬가지아니일까요?

[요나베드로]

우리가 지금까지 미국 덕택에 잘 살아왔는데 은혜도 모르는 한국놈들은 경제적 고통을 당해야 합니다. 그래야 때는 늦지만 정신 차리지요. 그래도 사탄에게 미혹된 좌파들은 정신을 못차리겠지만 말입니다.

[하나님이보호하사]

청약들어놓은게 우리에있는데 해약해야할까요?