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| Money-transfer man jailed in Germany |
| 2003-10-28 |
| An Iraqi exile who ran a "hawala" or money-transfer operation between Germany and Saddam Hussein-controlled southern Iraq was jailed this week for seven and a half years for defying UN trade sanctions against his homeland. A court in Munich convicted him of breaching German foreign- exchange laws. The man, 34, who had been living in Germany as an applicant for political asylum when he was arrested, transferred a total of EUR 2.25 million into Iraq between 2000 and 2003. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |