Iranian company duped U.S. banks: New York indictment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors took aim at Iran's main state shipping line on Monday, indicting several companies and individuals for helping the blacklisted firm's weapons proliferation activities by allegedly falsifying bank records. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said the state-sponsored Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, known as IRISL, used bogus companies to dupe New York-based banks into processing wire payments totaling more than $60 million. The indictments are the United States' latest attempts to paralyze ...
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