OFAC SANCTION OF IRANIAN MONEY LAUNDERER REMINDS US OF DOMINICA PM ROOSEVELT SKERRIT'S ILLICIT SALE OF DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS TO HIS PARTNER

                           

We note that the latest round of US Treasury OFAC  sanctions against Iranians supporting the regime included BABAK MORTEZA ZANJANI, the Iranian world-class criminal who once stole USD$2bn from the regime's illicit oil revenues, which earned him a Death Sentence in Tehran for Corruption on Earth. Zanjani, whose execution was later stayed, and converted to a twenty year sentence, was released last year, after swerving eleven years, so he could, under close government supervision, return to money laundering for Iran, hence the US Treasury action against him.

Babak Zanjani  (in prison uniform for condemned inmates)

Zanjani did not act alone regarding the embezzlement of the two million; his crew included REZA ZARRAB, who exchanged sanctioned oil for gold from Turkey. Zarrab, who was arrested at MIA when he and his family arrived to visit Disney World, and who escaped a major SDNY indictment by throwing his lot in with the CIA, (who sprung him from jail for G-d knows what level of covert cooperation); he currently owns a ranch in sunny South Florida. BTW Zarrab also had a handful of different passports.

Reza Zarrab, with some of his cash.

Zanjani's other senior partner, career criminal ALIREZA MONFARED, bought a number of diplomatic passports, for cash of course, from the one individual in the Caribbean who is in a class of his own when it comes to official  corruption, Dominica's longest-serving Prime Minister, ROOSEVELT SKERRIT. Skerrit, who once flew frantically to London to deliver yet another diplomatic passport to a career criminal who was a former Nigerian oil minister that was a fleeing fugitive from justice, is still selling instant diplomatic status for a bucket of greenbacks. His clients use their newly-acquired "diplomatic status" to evade customs and immigration kiosks at airports of entry in the developing world, allowing them to smuggle financial instruments, cash, precious gems, fine art and all sorts of other contraband. 

Roosevelt Skerrit and Alireza Monfared

The United Nations has studiously ignored the corrupt sale of diplomatic passports by greedy Caribbean leaders for decades, so unless President Trump  decides that Skerrit is the next national leader to sit in the dock in Federal District Court in New York for his many sins and transgressions, he will continue to violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, notwithstanding that Dominica is a signatory.However, the odds of whether he enjoys his sunset years, with all his filthy lucre, in Dubai, depends upon factors outside his control. There are generally few happy endings in tales such as his.

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