Cablegate: Iran/Fatf - German Financial Regulators Urge Banks

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIN PARM PREL MNUC KNNP PTER PGOV ECON IR GM
SUBJECT: IRAN/FATF - GERMAN FINANCIAL REGULATORS URGE BANKS
TO ENHANCE DUE DILIGENCE

REF: STATE 149648

1. (SBU) Global Affairs officer delivered reftel demarche
November 5 to German Finance Ministry Financial Crimes Desk
Officer Kristina Wogatzki and MFA International Financial
Policy Desk Officer Claudia Schuett. According to Wogatzki,
the German Financial Monitoring Association (BaFin)
distributed the German-language text of the FATF
statement/guidance on Iran - along with an advisory from the
German Government to exercise enhanced due diligence with
respect to all Iran-related transactions - to the German
Central Credit Committee (Zentraler Kreditausschuss, or ZKA)
and major German banking associations in late October.
Wogatzki noted that the ZKA and banking associations were
instructed to disseminate the information to their member
financial institutions.

2. (SBU) Schuett said the German Government remains
interested in providing clear, precise guidance to German
banks. She asked whether Treasury had provided specific
information to U.S. banks on how to determine whether Iranian
companies/banks are affiliated with entities of concern, such
as the IRGC.
TIMKEN JR

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