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US Again Targets Iranians Holding Caribbean Passports
By Colby Adams and Kira Zalan
printFor the fourth time this year, U.S. officials blacklisted an Iranian national using a Caribbean passport while purportedly helping Iran circumvent sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that Hossein Zeidi, an Iranian national and dual citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, violated sanctions by converting at least $250 million dollars in foreign funds held by Iran into American currency. Zeidi partnered with Afghan national Azizullah Qulandary and three other individuals to use Dubai-based export company Belfast General Trading LLC as a front to exchange the funds, which were then hand delivered to...
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