SYRIA AND ITS CHEMICAL WEAPONS HAS ALLIES

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA   ~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

 

IRAQ LINES UP WITH IRAN IN OPPOSING ANY ACTION AGAINST SYRIA DUE TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACKS

 

 

Iran's new foreign minister made Iraq his first stop on his initial trip abroad, and, in a joint press conference, his Iraqi counterpart, sitting beside him, bluntly stated that his country opposes any military response, due to Syria's use of outlawed chemical weapons.

 

I remind you that Iraq is deeply involved facilitating Iranian sanctions evasions, from accepting maritime shipments of goods in Iraqi ports, whose ultimate destination is Iran, to allowing overflights of Iraqi airspace of Iranian weapons-laden transports, bound for Damascus, to sending badly needed US currency, direct from Baghdad banks, to Tehran.

 

Is it not now time to impose civil penalties on Iraqi companies, and financial institutions, that assist in massive sanctions evasions ?

 

What is the US afraid of, the loss of an "ally" in the WMD program against Iran ? Iraq is already an ally of Iran.

 

 

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U.S. BANKS CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH IRAN FOR BIG PROFITS.

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA~ Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock

LARGE US BANKS FLAUNT IRANIAN SANCTIONS BY PLACING CREDIT CARDS INTO IRANIAN HANDS THROUGH THIRD PARTIES

Evidence has emerged that indicates that several of America's largest financial institutions are profiting from the international sanctions against Iran, by gaining Iranians as clients for their credit card offerings, using banks located in the Middle East, and in the independent, former Soviet republics in Central Asia.  

Since the clients are only indirect customers of the US banks, there is no strict violation of the letter of the laws on sanctions, though the spirit of the law has certainly been broken.

How can this happen, you ask ? Though the end users are Iranian nationals, the direct contract is between the US and a bank in, for example, Azerbaijan, Armenia, or even New Zealand.

This cute arrangement allows the American banks to sidestep the sanctions, and earn a healthy profit, all hidden from public view. Is this not unethical and illegal  ? What do you think ?

Remember that a number of large American corporations, and Wall Street firms,  openly traded with Nazi Germany, prior to the entry of the United States into the Second World War on 8 December, 1941.

Since the Iran sanctions are the functional equivalent of economic war, should US banks really be reaping excess profits from Iranian nationals ? I think not.

We have previously disclosed on this blog that one major credit card supplier has placed three million cards in Iran. Unfortunately, due to the increased involvement of big US banks, the number is much larger than it was when that article appeared.

This brings us to the question: Why is the US Treasury Department no taking action, against both the banks and the credit card companies ? If hostilities do erupt between the United States and Iran, over the illegal WMD and ballistic missile programs, will we find out later that American companies aided and abetted our enemy, and can anyone say Excess Profits Tax ?

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 * illustration for educational purposes only; not a real credit card.

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INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN FAIL ONCE AGAIN.

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA ~ Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock

FOUR MILLION TONS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE AT IRANIAN CUSTOMS VERIFIES UTTER FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS

A routine report, appearing in Middle Eastern media, verifying that that there are no less than four million tons of food and medicine, being held at Iranian Customs, is the best evidence yet that international sanctions.

 on Iran have been, to date, an utter failure.

Where did Iran obtain such a huge amount of goods, I wonder ?

The reason for the customs detention is reportedly a dispute, between the Central Bank and the Ministry of commerce, over the level of preferential currency exchange the goods shall qualify for.

This means that the Central Bank obviously has US Dollars to sell to the importers, does it not ? Where are all these banknotes coming from ? Iraq, especially banks in the Kurdish Region, are the largest known suppliers to their Iranian neighbors.

So, if there are global sanctions in effect against Iran, for its prohibited WMD, and ballistic missile programs, what countries are facilitating the evasion of the sanctions ? It would appear, based upon the assumption that this 4m tons is but the tip of the iceberg, that the sanctions, as of this date, have failed.

Will someone please explain this to the United States House of Representatives, which is considering the new, mandatory sanctions bill that just passed the Senate, that their prior efforts have been unsuccessful, and that these new, extreme measures are necessary.

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EU HAS A NEW FUNDRAISING PROGRAM TO PREVENT HEZBOLLAH'S MONEY LAUNDERING

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA ~ Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock

WILL EU BANKS NOW INTERDICT HEZBOLLAH FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES DUE TO THE SANCTIONS NOW IMPOSED ?

The sanctioning of Hezbollah's so-called military wing, by the European Union, is a major step in the right direction, but it begs the question: How will EU banks protect themselves from terrorist financing 

activities, now that fundraising is illegal ?

Obviously, there is a well-established program of fundraising, operated by Hezbollah agents in the EU, and these pipelines must now be identified, and closed down, forthwith, lest there be exposure to charges of providing material support to terrorism.

One must assume that compliance officers at international banks, located in the EU, whose clients transfer funds to Lebanon, for any reason, are initiating a broad-based review of such clients, their lines of business, and whether the payments they send to the Middle East ultimately end up in Beirut, in Hezbollah accounts.

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HEZBOLLAH CONTINUES TO SHIP DRUGS TO LEBANON

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA   ~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

BEIRUT AIRPORT 12 KILO COCAINE SEIZURE CAME FROM NIGERIA

The seizure, at Beirut's Hariri Airport, of twelve kilograms of cocaine, which had arrived from Kano, Nigeria, should serve as a reminder that the repatriation of narcotics profits, to Latin America, can easily be accomplished from banks located in the Middle East. Whether these drugs were destined for the growing European market is not known, but irrespective of the location of the end users/consumers,  paying for them from a Beirut bank is generally a low-risk transfer.

Whether the payment, through Panama or to banks in the tax havens of the Caribbean, is disguised as an international trade transaction, or some other fictitious business reason, the repeat nature of these types of transactions sometime will signal their true nature. Always make further inquiries, when there are wire transfers that appear to be unusually repetitious in their nature, or which do not seem to be similar to those others, in that trade or industry, that you have experienced from those jurisdictions.

Remember that good money launderers always seek to clothe their illicit transfers with legitimate covers, but that you may find some aspect of the transfers to be inconsistent with the industry that it professes to be involved in. 

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THE LEBANESE ARMY IS TRYING TO HIDE THE TRUTH

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA

~Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock ~

MIDDLE EAST MEDIA IS NOT ALWAYS A TRUSTED SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR COMPLIANCE

Compliance officers performing due diligence investigations know to discount the accuracy of media from Middle Eastern countries that are not democracies, but sometimes, even in those with democratic traditions, someone seeks to hide the truth. This week, after the Lebanese Army was joined by fighters from Hezbollah, in attacking the forces of a radical Sunni religious leader in Sidon, who opposes the Syrian Assad regime, army spokesmen delivered a blunt, public warning to Lebanese media.

The army threatened that, if any local media showed that Hezbollah troops participated in combat operations, against the Sunni group in Sidon, they would file what were described as judicial charges, against those news outlets that did. In truth and in fact, the army, supposedly a neutral entity, was seeking to suppress information harmful to Hezbollah. Direct domestic, military, involvement of Hezbollah may reflect negatively upon the stability of Lebanon, and therefore, its Country Risk.

While I am a regular reader of the Beirut newspaper, The Daily Star, when government actors in Lebanon seek to suppress truth in media, I must now consider that, in looking at any open sources of information originating in Lebanon in the future. 

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AL- QAEDA IS MANUFACTURING A POISON GAS TO TARGET EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA.

FROM THE - JOURNALS of Monte Friesner – Criminal & Intelligence Analyst and Consulaire for WANTED SA ~ Contributed & Written by Kenneth Rijock

IRAQ SEIZES AL-QAEDA POISON GAS FACTORY THAT TARGETED THE WEST

Iraqi authorities, reportedly acting upon information received from foreign intelligence services, have seized a facility where Sarin and mustard gas were being manufactured, by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Members of a five-man cell have been arrested, and equipment confiscated. Remote-control toy aircraft were also found at the site, and were intended to serve as delivery agents for the poison gas being manufactured.

The most disturbing aspect of the case was information that the proposed targets were located in Europe and North America, with the gas to be smuggled out of the Middle East, to the intended destinations. The manufacturing process was reportedly being carried out with technical assistance from another Al-Qaeda affiliate, but its identify was not publicly released.

Some of the equipment seized. Iraq's Ministry of Defense reported that there were two separate poison manufacturing sites, both located in Baghdad.  Will this new threat cause a delay by the United States in winding down the War on Terror ?

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