Wednesday, February 25, 2015

EXCLUSIVE - Iran smuggles in $1 billion of bank notes to skirt sanctions - sources

Reuters
BY JONATHAN SAUL, PARISA HAFEZI AND LOUIS CHARBONNEAU-Tue Feb 24, 2015
(Reuters) - At least $1 billion in cash has been smuggled into Iran as it seeks to avoid Western sanctions, a bigger figure than previously reported, Iranian officials and Western intelligence and diplomatic sources say.