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American law forbids banking institutions from providing service in American currency to people on the sanctions list. In effect, the U.S. authorities have found ways of imposing the rules on companies and banks that are not incorporated in the United States – as long as an American entity is also involved in the process of receiving the money. According to the legal precedent on the matter, it’s enough for the foreign bank to use a U.S. information system for the sanctions to apply to it.
Gertler claims in response to this report that based on a legal opinion he commissioned, the sanctions do not apply to the dollar activity attributed to his associates in DRC, one reason being that Afriland has no link to the United States. However, in an interview he recently gave to the French radio station RFI, Patrick Kafindo, director of the Afriland branch in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, admitted that the bank itself belie
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Updated: February 23, 2021, 12:13 pm
Nicholas Pooran and Kagiso Rabada have been snapped up by the Manchester Originals (Tim Goode/Scott Heavey/PA)
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West Indies star Nicholas Pooran and South Africa paceman Kagiso Rabada were among 10 new arrivals for Manchester Originals as they rounded out their squad for The Hundred.
The Originals had 10 slots to fill as teams completed their men’s squads and got the top pick, which they used to bring in 25-year-old wicketkeeper Pooran, who has averaged 49.05 in 25 ODIs for the West Indies and 21.23 in 24 T20s.