The Bank is suspected of carrying out multi-billion dollar deals, conducted on behalf of the Iranian contractors through subsidiaries in the United States in the period to 2008. The U.S. Department of justice stated that the investigation is at an initial stage, and at the moment there is no reason to suppose that the Bank violated U.S. law in the period after 2008.
The representative of Deutsche Bank declined to comment on the fact, however, he noted that even in 2007 management of the Bank decided to refuse from new contracts with counterparties in countries such as Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea, as existed at the time the agreement minimize to the extent possible.
Check Deutsche Bank has become another episode in the investigation of the world's largest credit organizations, who are suspected in the transfer of funds on behalf of Iranian contractors. Prosecutors suggest that banks conducted illegal transaction once in 2008 was liquidated loophole in us law, previously allowed them to evade financial sanctions Washington.
In 2009, the us authorities began investigating the activities of five foreign banks on suspicion that they spent the money through its branches in America. Under suspicion were ABN Amro, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Lloyds, ING.
on August 14, the British Bank Standard Chartered, accused by U.S. financial regulators in illegal operations with Iranian companies, has agreed to pay a fine in the amount of $ 340 million. Thus the Bank has concluded an agreement with the Department of financial services of the state of new York, and this allows him to avoid litigation.
Over the last decade, the United States and its allies tightened sanctions against Iranian banks and state institutions. Restrictions were introduced with the purpose to force Iran to stop projects on uranium enrichment, which the U.S. considers illegal. Tehran insists that he is engaged in the development of the programme for peaceful purposes, but refuses to allow the UN data on the work of the nuclear centers.