US embassy cable - 05AMMAN6782

S E C R E T AMMAN 006782 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS - J SALOOM, S/CT - T KUSHNER 
STATE ALSO FOR NEA/ELA - D BARON, NEA/I - J VOLZ 
TREASURY FOR J GARDNER AND OFAC - B WERNER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/23/2015 
TAGS: ETTC, EFIN, PTER, PREL, CVIS, KTFN, IZ, JO, LVPR 
SUBJECT: (S) IRAQ FRE ASSETS: AL-SADUN 
 
REF: STATE 149954 
 
Classified By: CDA CHRISTOPHER HENZEL FOR REASONS 1.4 B, C AND D 
 
 1.  (S)  Acting Econ/C August 14 delivered reftel background 
paper to Central Bank of Jordan Deputy Governor Faris Sharaf 
and requested that he inquire closely into the case and share 
with us any information that he or the CBJ fraud 
investigation unit might uncover.  Sharaf said that he would 
personally oversee inquiries into the referenced account, 
initially remarking that he considered it an 
urgent matter and that he would start by checking the banks 
in al-Wahdat, a possible location for the account noted in 
the background paper. 
 
2.  (S)  On August 21, Sharaf reported by telephone that he 
could say with confidence that the account noted reftel was 
not located in any/any of Jordan's 23 banks.  The name was 
very specific (giving all four parts of a name), he noted, 
and the amount possibly remaining in the account was also 
unusual.  He added that the CBJ had checked on accounts for 
this same person, listed under UNSCR 1483, two times before 
earlier this year.  One check was done as a result of the 
name being added to the UNSCR 1483 list and being circulated 
individually, he said.  A second time, the CBJ circulated the 
complete UNSCR 1483 list and asked banks again to check for 
matching accounts.  At the conclusion of the telcon, Sharaf 
repeated that he was confident that the reftel account does 
not exist in any of Jordan's banks. 
HENZEL