WASHINGTON: The United States moved to banish from the country two foreign banks suspected of helping the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to launder money siphoned from the UN oil-for-food programme.
The Treasury Department formally designated Infobank of Belarus and First Merchant Bank, operating in the Turkish-controlled northern part of Cyprus, as institutions of “primary money laundering concern”, which effectively shuts them out of the US financial system.
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