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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
08AMMAN99	2008-01-13 09:42	2011-08-26 00:00	UNCLASSIFIED	Embassy Amman

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R 130942Z JAN 08
FM AMEMBASSY AMMAN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1429
RUEHAS/AMEMBASSY ALGIERS 0197
RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI 1193
RUEHGB/AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD 5698
RUEHLB/AMEMBASSY BEIRUT 2767
RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO 3467
RUEHDO/AMEMBASSY DOHA 0392
RUEHKU/AMEMBASSY KUWAIT 0845
RUEHMK/AMEMBASSY MANAMA 0652
RUEHMS/AMEMBASSY MUSCAT 0534
RUEHNK/AMEMBASSY NOUAKCHOTT 0023
RUEHRB/AMEMBASSY RABAT 0395
RUEHRH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH 1877
RUEHYN/AMEMBASSY SANAA 0631
RUEHTU/AMEMBASSY TUNIS 1010
RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM 4785
INFO RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUEAHLC/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHDC

UNCLAS AMMAN 000099 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR NEA AND EEB 
STATE PLEASE PASS TO USAID 
CAIRO FOR ALER GRUBBS 
DHS PLEASE PASS TO ICE FOR SHAUN LONERGAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EFIN ETRD KTFN SNAR XF
SUBJECT: INVITATION TO ATTEND MARCH BULK CASH SMUGGLING SEMINAR IN 
JORDAN 
 
¶1.  This message contains action requests.  Please see paragraphs 
4-8. 
 
¶2.  The U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) and the 
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (DHS-ICE and CBP) 
will jointly deliver  a seminar on the Interdiction and 
Investigation of Bulk Cash Smuggling (BCS) in Amman, Jordan March 
10-13.  This event is being offered to customs, prosecutorial, and 
financial intelligence unit personnel from Middle East and North 
African countries to assist these countries in enhancing their 
national mechanisms dedicated to anti-money laundering and 
countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).  The seminar will 
focus on bulk cash smuggling as it applies to AML/CFT efforts. 
 
¶3.  Treasury/OTA and DHS, with funding assistance from USAID, invite 
action addressees to participate in the seminar, and will pay for 
the travel, lodging, per diem, and visa application fees (if 
necessary) for one prosecutor and one customs official from 
specified countries (see paragraphs 4-8).  The Palestinian Authority 
is also invited to participate. 
 
¶4.  Action request for Embassies Algiers, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, 
Nouakchott, Rabat, Sanaa, and Tunis:  Please notify host governments 
of this event, and assist in identifying appropriate participants 
from among officials in the public prosecution, customs, and 
financial intelligence units of  host governments. 
 
¶5.  Action request for Consulate General Jerusalem:  Please extend 
this invitation to the Palestinian Authority. 
 
¶6.  Action Request for Embassies Manama, Kuwait, Muscat, Doha, 
Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi:  Due to USAID funding restrictions on paying 
for travel and per diem of participants from certain Gulf states, 
Embassies Manama, Kuwait, Muscat, Doha, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi are 
requested to identify candidates and encourage host governments to 
fund their attendance.  In the event that external funding becomes 
available for participants from these countries, posts will be 
informed by septel. 
 
¶7.  Action Request for Embassy Manama:  Post is also requested to 
extend an invitation to the MENAFATF Secretariat.  The MENAFATF 
participant will need to be funded by the organization. 
 
¶8.  Ideal participants should have a direct connection to the 
governments' AML/CFT efforts.  Prosecutors and customs officials who 
are in a position of AML/CFT policy development and implementation 
are strongly preferred.  Funding of participants is limited to one 
prosecutor and one customs official.  However, FIU participants are 
invited and encouraged to attend in order to strengthen their 
national AML/CFT system.  Posts are encouraged to consider the 
possibility of funding an FIU participant if participation meets the 
AML/CFT objectives of post.  Posts are individually responsible for 
the vetting of participants from their country in accordance with 
post and Department policies. 
 
¶9.  The deadline for submission of names of participants is February 
¶11.  Identifying data should include:  Full name, DOB, position 
title, complete agency name and business address, national ID 
number, contact telephone numbers, and email address.  After names 
are submitted to the Embassy Amman point of contact (below), fund 
cite information will be relayed to the submitting post for 
acquisition of airline tickets and issuance of the travel advance. 
Each post is responsible for coordinating the travel of its host 
nation nominee and informing the participant of the need to acquire 
an entry visa to Jordan, if necessary.  Deadline for submission of 
travel information is March 2. 
 
¶10.  Official travel days will be March 9 and March 14.  Lodging 
 
will be paid in advance by U.S. Treasury for the nights of March 
9-13.  Participants will be responsible for ground transportation 
to/from Queen Alia International Airport and the hotel.  The seminar 
will end on March 13 at approximately 3:30 PM (GMT+2).  If 
participants wish to begin their return travel on March 13, flight 
departure should be planned to occur after 6:00 PM to allow time for 
ground travel to the airport. 
 
¶11.  Presentations at the seminar will be in English. 
English-Arabic and Arabic-English interpretation will be provided. 
 
¶12.  The seminar agenda will address the following topics: 
 
Money Laundering Fundamentals 
International AML/CFT Standards & Best Practices 
FATF Special Recommendation IX and Associated Guidance 
Intelligence Analysis 
Interdicting Cash Couriers - Best Practices & Red Flag Indicators 
Asset Forfeiture 
Interviewing Techniques 
BCS Money Laundering Case Studies 
Alternate Remittance Systems 
Anti-Corruption in Government 
Cash Declaration Form Practical Exercise 
Source Development 
Follow-Up Investigative Techniques 
Interdiction Practical Exercise 
Practical Exercise (Follow-up Investigation) 
 
¶13.  A bilingual brochure concerning this event and an invitation 
letter template will be available on the Embassy Amman intranet site 
at amman.state.gov by January 16.  Posts may download these 
documents for use in recruiting participants. 
 
¶14.  The Embassy Amman point of contact for the event is Joe Parker, 
Resident Enforcement Advisor, U.S. Treasury.  He can be reached by 
e-mail at parkerje@state.gov, or by telephone at  962-6-590-6544 
(embassy) or 962-79-582-3305 (mobile). 
 
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