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RUEHEG/AMEMBASSY CAIRO 4082
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RUEAWJB/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC

UNCLAS AMMAN 001664 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR NEA/ELA, S/CT, AND EEB/ESC 
TREASURY FOR OFFICE OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, ATTN: CARLOS CORREA 
JUSTICE FOR OFFICE OF OVERSEAS PROSECUTORIAL DEVELOPMENT, 
ASSISTANCE, AND TRAINING, ATTN: JAMES SILVERWOOD 
CAIRO FOR TREASURY, ATTN: JERRY ROWE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SOCI JO
SUBJECT: USG AML WORKSHOP FOR JUDGES IN AMMAN RAISES AWARENESS OF 
NEED FOR PROSECUTING MONEY LAUNDERING 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED.  NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 
¶1.  (U) The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Overseas 
Prosecutorial Development and Training (OPDAT) and U.S. Treasury's 
Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) recently delivered four, 
two-day workshops in Amman on "Adjudicating Money Laundering and 
Related Financial Crime Cases" to 86 Jordanian judges.  The June 
8-18, 2009, series of workshops was conducted under the patronage of 
the Judicial Institute of Jordan and funded by OPDAT. 
¶2.  (U) The workshops were designed to provide Jordanian judges with 
insight into the complexities of investigations and prosecutions of 
money laundering and financial crimes in order to improve the 
adjudication of criminal charges in light of Jordan's Law No. 46 of 
2007, the Anti Money Laundering Law. 
 
¶3.  (U) The seminar agenda included presentations on: 
 
- Benefits of Anti-Money Laundering Laws 
 
- Jordan's Anti-Money Laundering Regime Structure and Legal 
Framework 
 
- Introduction to Money Laundering Concepts, Methods and Trends 
 
- Predicate Offenses to Money Laundering in the Context of Organized 
Criminal Enterprises 
 
- The Role of Jordan's Anti-Money Laundering Unit 
 
- The Enterprise Theory of Prosecution to Attack Organized Crime 
 
- Financial Investigative Techniques to "Follow the Money" 
 
- Methods of Proof Using Direct and Indirect Evidence 
 
- Foreign Requests for Judicial Assistance 
 
- Round Table Discussion on Jordanian Courts and the Adjudication of 
Money Laundering and Related Financial Crime Cases. 
 
¶4.  (U) The OPDAT Regional Legal Advisor - Abu Dhabi and the OTA 
Resident Economic Crimes Advisor - Amman were joined by Assistant 
U.S. Attorneys from Washington and Florida, an OTA Advisor, and U.S. 
District Judges from the District of Minnesota and Eastern District 
of Kentucky in presenting the workshops. 
 
¶6.  (U) A combination of Court of First Instance and Court of 
Appeals judges from Jordan's Ministry of Justice and Military 
Judiciary Judges from the State Security Court (SSC) comprised the 
86 participants .  Participants particularly appreciated the 
inclusion of sitting U.S. jurists as presenters in the workshops. 
 
¶7.  (SBU) The consensus of the attendees was that several changes to 
the current AML law were necessary for the effective investigation 
and prosecution of money laundering, and that the current level of 
understanding and practice would make it difficult to gain a 
conviction of money laundering under Jordanian law.  NOTE: To date 
no prosecutions for money laundering have occurred in Jordan.  END 
NOTE.  The attendees also opined that more awareness of the 
deleterious effects of money laundering and financial crimes as well 
as the benefits of the money laundering law as a tool to address 
organized and financial crime are necessary for public and SSC 
prosecutors to feel comfortable with charging under the law.  The 
fact that the law excludes numerous high monetary yield criminal 
acts as predicate offenses for money laundering was focused on as a 
principal area of weakness in the AML law. 
 
¶7. (U) The Department of Justice's OPDAT Regional Legal Advisor - 
Abu Dhabi cleared this message. 
 
Visit Amman's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/amman 
 
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