REFILE-Japan's JX: no problem with paying Iran for oil now
Japan's top oil refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, is not facing a problem paying Iran for crude imports, the company said on Thursday, after a major Japanese bank froze transactions with Iranian banks on the order of a U.S. court. Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ said it had frozen Iranian assets and transactions with Iranian banks after being ordered to do so early this month by the New York District Court. The step is a consequence of a U.S. court decision in 2007 that ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to survivors and ...
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