Published: 10 January 2021 10 January 2021
Washington, DC - The Justice Department announced the United States has collected $7 million of Iranian funds that will be allocated to provide compensation to American victims of international state-sponsored terrorism.
The funds are the United States’ share of a civil forfeiture investigation that is part of the government’s pursuit of a complex international conspiracy which spanned the globe. The conspiracy’s purpose was to violate the United States imposed international economic sanctions regime on Iran and included several Iranian nationals and others, who fraudulently transferred approximately $1 billion worth of Iranian-owned funds to accounts around the world.
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The US government on Tuesday said it collected $7 million in Iranian assets after unveiling a complex conspiracy that included fraudulent money transfers across the US, South Korea, the Emirates and Georgia.
A senior official thanked the UAE for its assistance in putting an end to the scam.
The recovered money was the US share of a civil forfeiture after the discovery of attempts to breach sanctions on Tehran by wiring Iranian funds to accounts overseas, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The forfeited money will be used to compensate victims of terrorist attacks.
“The funds forfeited today had been destined to benefit criminal actors who engaged in an elaborate scheme to violate US sanctions against Iran, one of the world’s leading state sponsors of terrorism,” acting assistant attorney general David Burns said.
The U.S. Justice Department announced the United States has collected $7 million of Iranian funds that will be allocated to provide compensation to American victims of international state-sponsored terrorism. The funds are the United States’ share of a civil forfeiture investigation that is part of the government’s pursuit of a complex international conspiracy which spanned […]
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