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Iraq's central bank must address continued risks of the misuse of dollars at Iraqi commercial banks to avoid new punitive measures targeting the country's financial sector, a top U.S. Treasury ...
Iraq has banned eight local commercial banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, taking action to reduce fraud, money laundering and other illegal uses of U.S. currency days after a visit ...
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -The United States has barred 14 Iraqi banks from conducting dollar transactions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.
Dijlah & Furat Bank; Economy Bank Iraq; Gulf Commercial Bank; Taawen Islamic Bank; Industrial Union Investment Bank; Investment Bank of Iraq; Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank; Islamic Bank; Mosul Bank; National Bank of Iraq; North Bank; Sumer Bank; Union Bank of Iraq; Bank Audi ِWorld Islamic Bank ِElaf Islamic Bank; United Investment Bank ...
Executive Order 13303 was issued on May 22, 2003, by United States President George W. Bush to protect the Development Fund for Iraq for the rebuilding of Iraq from any legal attachments or liens. Further, it protects Iraqi oil products and interests and ownership by US persons (defined to include US corporations) from attachment as well.
The fund also eventually received money (US$1.724 billion) from seized and "vested" Iraqi bank accounts and funds seized by coalition forces ($926.7 million). $650 million of this amount belongs to Uday Saddam Hussein, the older son of the former Iraqi president. [2] (This money was also used during the transition period before the DFI was set up.)
The 14 banks facing the ban issued a joint statement urging the Iraqi government to address the issue and warning that banning a third of Iraq's private banks from dollar trading would not only ...
The National Bank of Iraq became the Central Bank of Iraq in 1956. [5] Since switching over to its own central bank, the Iraqi monetary system was "replete with mismanagement, coercive stop-gap measures, and the production of an unstable, unreliable currency which ha[d] not been tradeable on the international market for [many] years".