Arizona resident arrested on international financial charges involved Iran

Associated Press ^ | 10/5/01 9:23 PM | SCOTT THOMSEN

[grimalkin]

PHOENIX (AP) -- An Iranian citizen living in Scottsdale was arrested Friday on charges that he violated federal financial sanctions against Iran.

A 234-count indictment handed up Sept. 13 in Phoenix accuses Eskandar Khamooshpour of transferring more than $16 million in and out of Iran since January 1997.

[browardchad]

And Kuwait and the UAE are just shocked, I tell you!

[XGMan]

Here's an interesting link.

Arizona IRANIAN money laundering service.
Note same last name...

Click Here

[Sueann]

This has been going on since 1997, right? Well then, I guess we get to blame this on Clinton and Reno - again! Just one more irresponsible action!

[Hillary 666]

A 234-count indictment...

I hate it when that happens!!

[BunnySlippers]

Arizona IRANIAN money laundering service.
Note same last name...

You have a calling in US intelligence!

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

hang the f@#k-------------

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[Cindy]

Re: Your Post#3:

I wonder if the CIA, FBI, DIA, and Home Security have that information. Hmmm.....

[Lancey Howard]

Wasn't Sammy "the Bull" Gravano involved with the Iranians in an Ecstasy ring?
I am beginning to see where that Ayn Rand Institute guy was coming from when he said Iran is the key to the whole mess and we should make it our first target.

[bluefish]

234 Counts - It's amazing how the "counts" can continue to rack up unabated until something big happens for the general public takes notice. It would appear that nobody cared about the illegal activity until Sept. 11 now, wouldn't it?

[Demidog]

The first 46 counts of the indictment allege that Khamooshpour, using various aliases and business names, shipped the money through Kuwait and the United Arab Emirate. The maximum penalty for each count is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Horror! Fear him! He transferred bits of digital data.

[bluefish]

It is what the bits of digital data wind up financing that should be feared. A picture is made up of a million pixels. You can trivialize the picture by saying one of the pixels is meaningless, but so is your point.

[Cultural Jihad]

The Horror! Fear him! He transferred bits of digital data.

Oh, the horror! A soulless collection of random chemicals has been thrown into a quadrant of columnar ferric molecules for transferring ones and zeros electronically! One supposes even a musical nihilist would do a lot of silly, illegal, immoral, and traitorous things for a stream of those ones and zeros. Funny how moral-relativists seem to think what they believe is right and wrong is sooo important for others to hear about. LOL!

[Demidog]

The only crime that they can pin on him is transfering HIS OWN money into a Kuwaiti bank and then to Iran (or so they say).

[Roscoe]

A soulless collection of random chemicals has been thrown into a quadrant of columnar ferric molecules for transferring ones and zeros electronically!

:)

Obfuscation is the natural language of libertarianism.

[dennisw]

The party's over ...... I hope!

[albee]

"...It is what the bits of digital data wind up financing that should be feared. A picture is made up of a million pixels. You can trivialize the picture by saying one of the pixels is meaningless, but so is your point...

Excellent analogy. You real drove theat point home!

[G-Rated]

Your pixel example reminds me of the graphic found at #14 on the following thread: http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3ba541896778.htm

[bluefish]

The only crime that they can pin on him is transfering HIS OWN money into a Kuwaiti bank and then to Iran (or so they say).

Gee, you've progressed from a harmless movement of "bits of digital data" to a probable "illegal transfer of real, actual cash." Keep thinking real hard now demidog, you are almost there! (Hint: Start with where the money is going).