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Viewing cable 07BERLIN2028, IRAN/FATF - GERMAN FINANCIAL REGULATORS URGE BANKS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07BERLIN2028 2007-11-06 17:00 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Berlin 
VZCZCXRO9372
PP RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHLZ
DE RUEHRL #2028 3101700
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 061700Z NOV 07
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9727
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC PRIORITY
INFO RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 0910
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 8640
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 1870
RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 1089
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 9188
RUEHRO/AMEMBASSY ROME 0836
RUEHKO/AMEMBASSY TOKYO 1529
RUEHDI/AMCONSUL DUBAI 0099
 
UNCLAS BERLIN 002028 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE FOR ISN, T, NEA AND EUR 
 
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