BTMU’s Tokyo operations engaged in practices designed to conceal the involvement of countries or persons subject to U.S. sanctions, including Iran, in transactions that BTMU processed through financial institutions in the United States.
On May 18, 2010, Bank of Guam originated a $2,265 wire transfer on behalf of a customer, destined for a trading company in the United Arab Emirates. The payment was for delivery charges related to the shipment of furniture and other items to Iran.
On June 7, 2010, BBNY manually added Isfahan Internacional Importadora Ltda (“Isfahan”), a customer of Banco do Brasil, S.A., Brazil (“BB-Brazil”), to its “Good Guy Exception List” after its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) interdiction software generated alerts on a recurring basis due to the word “Isfahan”—a location in Iran—in the company’s name.
Illegal export of commercial Boeing 747 aircraft from the US to Iran.
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