Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
I commend you for pushing it through the house i had help even from the other side. Exactly. The way that it will be used and be effective is that it allows the federal regulators to rely on state examinations for purposes of overseeing compliance with antiMoney Laundering regulations, that will expand our ability to get insight into the quality of the antiMoney Laundering efforts out in the across the country, particularly in the Money Services industry. And that will, i think, enhance the confidence that Financial Institutions have in taking on Money Service businesses as customers. So to get back to the derisk in question. What we are hoping to foster is an environment where institutions do in fact engage in a continue, really, to engage in a balance of risk, and the Better Foundation for that risk assessment, i think the better off we all are. Thank you. I want to say, i would like to work with you to help more Financial Institutions understand whats available under the act. Let me
But they dont have assets here, or around the world. Theyre doing things domestically in iraq. It would not make a difference to add them to the list. What we want to do ultimately is make a difference. What we need to do in particular is not just focusing on the guy today who has the title of finance minister and doing things only within iraq, but the middle men who are facilitating oil payments and anything crossing the borders. Are there leverage points that treasury, or anywhere in the administration, that we could use to encourage whether its kuwait, qatar, or turkey, or other countries in the region, to follow through . I think there are. One of the concerns that i have is whether or not these vast sums of money that are being generated internally by isis are entering banks in qatar. And we should be scrutinizing, working very closely to ensure that those banks are applying the relevant antiMoney Laundering, terrorist financing regulations that they should. And if not, perhaps th
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