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A Canadian intelligence report revealed that a foreign exchange company was involved in helping Iran transfer millions of dollars to Canada, according to a report on the Canadian website “961”.
A Canadian intelligence report revealed that a foreign exchange company was involved in helping Iran transfer millions of dollars to Canada, according to a report on the Canadian website “961”.
The report said that the “Ong Exchange Partnership” helped Tehran transfer funds from Bank Saderat, a bank controlled by the Iranian regime and used to finance Hezbollah.
According to the report, Canadian intelligence accuses Alireza Onagi, 44, an immigrant investor, of “posing a threat to the country’s national security by helping Tehran transfer money to Canada.”
The report cited that “Canada’s Intelligence Service wrote in its report in September 2019 that the funds were directed through Dubai to” circumvent sanctions. “
Although “the amount that was transferred from Iran to Canada is still unknown,” intelligence estimates it in the millions.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service report states that “a currency exchange company transfers funds to Canada from the Saderat Bank, to which Canada and the US Treasury have imposed sanctions for financing Hamas and Hezbollah.”
In 2006, the UN Security Council issued Resolution 1696 and imposed sanctions on Iran, after it refused to suspend its uranium enrichment program, and Canada imposed additional sanctions in June 2010.
And last year, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the international network through which money passes to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, targeting 25 individuals and entities with financial sanctions.
The sanctions aim to shut down the global financial system to those it targets by prohibiting US citizens and businesses, as well as international banks with a US presence, from dealing with them.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, adopted a policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, and decided in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw from the agreement on the nuclear program between Tehran and the main powers, and to re-impose tough economic sanctions on Tehran.
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