Financial Tribune - The coronavirus pandemic can have some impact on the anti-money laundering process of financial institutions throughout the world.
Financial institutions have recommended clients to conduct their transactions through non face-to-face instruments, which are inherently considered risky.
Therefore, if loopholes had not been found ...
Tasnim The Intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in another move to combat economic corruption, managed to arrest members of a major money laundering ring in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan.
The intelligence forces of the IRGC in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, identified and apprehended the ringleaders ...
Tasnim Iranian security forces have managed to apprehend members of a major criminal network that has been earning huge profits by tax evasion and money laundering, the head of the Judiciary in the northern province of Golestan said.
Speaking to reporters in Gorgan, the provincial capital, on Sunday, Hadi Hashemian said the members of the money ...
IRNA - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic and the Foreign Ministry have done their best to counter the Western efforts over money laundering.
Attending in the Parliament to reply to a question posed by an MP regarding his remarks on money laundering as much as 30 billion tomans in Iran and inaction in ...
Tasnim The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave Iran a final deadline of February 2020 to tighten its rules against money laundering in compliance with the global watchdogs financial standards.
If before February 2020, Iran does not enact the Palermo and Terrorist Financing Conventions in line with the FATF Standards, then the FATF ...
Radio Farda - The prosecutor in the corruption trial of a super-rich sponsor of major Iranian football (soccer) clubs, says one of the suspects in the case had opened 242 bank accounts within a day in his 8-year-old sons name, Iranian news agencies reported.
At a court session on Sunday March 10, the prosecutors described the act as tantamount to ...
Tasnim The Iranian Intelligence Ministry apprehended members of a network that has been earning huge profits by smuggling foreign currency, tax evasion and money laundering.
The Intelligence Ministry forces in the province of Qazvin arrested 12 members of the network on charges of disrupting the countrys currency market, smuggling currency through ...
MNA Laya Joneydi Vice President for Legal Affairs said that laws of Confronting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing help country improve its financial, monetary and banking system particularly.
She made the above remark this morning in the 4th Annual Anti-Corruption Conference, held at the venue of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines ...
MNA Supreme Council of Economic Coordination chaired by President Rouhani approved Iranian Central Banks suggestions to have more transparent banking transactions and to fight against money laundering more effectively.
The SupremeCouncilofEconomicCoordination, which is a joint regular meeting of the heads of the three branches of Iranian ...
MNA Stating that Iranians are revolutionary, standing by each other in a great country, President Rouhani said, we are a big family and it is natural to have problems. We should be proud of fighting corruption step by step."
Speaking at the regular weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani said, we should leave the issues to ...
MNA | Mohammad Ghaderi: While Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asks for joining FATF (The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering), it is obvious that the member countries of this organization are already actively engaged in money laundering, Mehr news agency reported.
The foreign minister claimed that large amounts ...
Bourse and Bazaar - Iran's judiciary chief said Monday that government officials must not make accusations of vast money-laundering operations by powerful institutions, which could be exploited by the enemy.
The criticism followed statements by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to the Khabar Online news agency last week in which he said: "Money ...
MNA An Iranian lawmaker said Wed. the Parliament will review the recent remarks by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on money laundering during the next session.
Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iranian Parliament Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said the issue will be addressed on Sunday (Nov. 18) in attendance of Zarif....
IRNA What Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said about money laundering was 'an honest explanation of one of the problems of the country', said Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday.
'Several of the authorities had already talked about the problem and stated that finding a solution to the issue of money laundering has been emphasized ...
RNA The members of Majlis (Iranian Parliament) passed a bill against money laundering with 139 out of 226 votes on Tuesday.
The bill had 55 nays, and 2 parliamentarians abstained from voting for or against it.
The introduction of the bill says that it is presented to Majlis regarding the fact that there are some problems in the law of fighting ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi called on the different countries and international bodies to help trace money-laundering moves made in support of the terrorist groups financially.
"The Takfiri and Wahhabi groups are supported through money-laundering and we believe that we can prevent these money-laundering moves,...
An Israeli official says the details of an investigation into allegations of large-scale money laundering by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be made public soon.
The official, whose name was not mentioned in reports, said on Saturday that police believe that they have adequate evidence to make the probe public this week or early next week....
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Intl. money laundering body suspends restrictions on Tehran
The FATF(Financial Action Task Force), an international group that monitors money laundering worldwide, on Fri. called for a one-year suspension of some restrictions on Tehran.
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TEHRAN, Jun. 25 (MNA) The FATF(Financial Action Task Force), an international group that monitors money laundering worldwide, on Fri. called for a one-year suspension of some restrictions on Tehran.
Iran was put on the blacklistof high-risk countries by the FATA Financial Action Task Force because the international group determined that the ...
Tehran, May 19, The Iran Project - The second-ranked official at the International Monetary Fund said Iran must tackle problems in its banking system and bolster anti-money laundering and terrorism-financing laws if it wants to reconnect to the global economy, in supporting US policies toward Iran's sanctions on banking system.
Lenders here have ...