The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports that a man caught last month trying to enter Germany with a cheque worth about $70 million was Iran’s former central bank chief.
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Court says Central Bank chief got dismissal notice
Iran’s Court of Audit announced that Mahmoud Bahmani, the head of the Central Bank, has been given notice of dismissal in connection with issues concerning foreign currencies.
Iranian bank directors removed from EU blacklist
The European Union has removed five Iranian bank directors from its blacklist after these individuals filed a suit to challenge the EU decision to put them under sanctions.
Iran sentences four people to death for bank fraud
An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bank fraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media reported on Monday.
TD Bank: Iranian-Canadians caught up in sanctions row
A Canadian bank cancelled accounts of customers of Iranian origin with no chance to deny they violated financial sanctions, customers have reported.
Central Bank site inaccessible
Iranian media report that the website of Iran’s Central Bank has been the target of a cyber-attack that’s thrown all of its systems offline.
Japan bank freezes Iran accounts after court order
By Harumi Ozawa TOKYO (AFP)— A Japanese bank has halted transactions by the Iranian government after a US court ordered a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, a bank spokesman said on Thursday.
Swiss Extend Iran Sanctions, Exempt Central Bank
The Swiss government says it has extended financial sanctions against Iran by freezing the assets of 11 more companies and individuals.
Iran Central Bank Issues Warning After Major Credit-Card Hack
Iran’s central bank has urged all credit- and debit-cardholders in the country to change their personal identification code numbers to increase the security of their transactions.
Iran: Bank Melli management board members banned from leaving Iran over fraud case
Payvand – Members of the management board of Bank Melli Iran have been prohibited from leaving the country over the $2.6 billion financial fraud case, Mehdi Farahani, an official at the office of the Tehran prosecutor general, announced in Tehran on Sunday.