US embassy cable - 05VIENNA3841

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AUSTRIA: POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT FINANCIAL ACTIVITY

Identifier: 05VIENNA3841
Wikileaks: View 05VIENNA3841 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Vienna
Created: 2005-12-09 13:20:00
Classification: SECRET
Tags: EFIN KJUS KNNP KTFN KN AU
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

S E C R E T VIENNA 003841 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/09/2015 
TAGS: EFIN, KJUS, KNNP, KTFN, KN, AU 
SUBJECT: AUSTRIA: POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT FINANCIAL 
ACTIVITY 
 
REF: STATE 220713 
 
Classified By: Economic-Political Counselor Gregory E. Phillips for 
reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 
 
(S) EconPol Counselor and Econ Unit Chief delivered reftel 
points December 7 to Thomas Wieser, Director General of the 
Ministry of Finance's Economic Policy and Financial Markets 
Directorate and to Birgit Ertl, an anti-money laundering 
expert in the MoF's Financial Markets Division.  We noted 
that the USG had reason to believe that DPRK representatives 
had attempted to establish relationships with Austrian 
financial institutions following the USG's designation of 
Banco Delta Asia (BDA) as a "primary money laundering 
concern."  Wieser thanked the USG for the information and 
promised to relay the information to the relevant authorities 
to investigate.  He noted that the GoA had shut down the 
DPRK-run Golden Star Bank in Vienna in 2003.  Wieser promised 
to keep us advised of any information regarding BDA 
activities in Austria. 
MCCAW 

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