America intends to confiscate skyscraper owned by Iran's "secret" in New York
USA plans to confiscate soon skyscraper layer of 36 public prosecutor says that Iran owned " secret ," as the Ministry of Justice reported Tuesday.
This came in a statement to the U.S. Department of Justice to lay hands on the building, located in the heart of New York City on Fifth Avenue and selling it would be " the biggest seizure linked to terrorism in history."
Bit This week a federal judge in favor of the U.S. government in a given case , asserting that the skyscraper owners violated the sanctions imposed on Iran and the laws on money laundering .
He announced a defendant in Manhattan Federal Brett Bharara that the decision confirms the charges and the Justice Department , which claimed that the owner of the building " was (and still is) an interface to Bank Melli , and therefore the interface to the Government of Iran ," explaining that proceeds from the sale tower will provide " resources to compensate the victims of terrorism , funded by Iran," .
The U.S. claim that the owners of the building they Alawi Foundation and a " basis " turned the rental revenues and other funds to Bank Melli Iran . Said in a statement that Al Alawi also runs humanitarian Association for Iran also manages the building on behalf of the Iranian government .
The tower constructed a non- profit organization is the Pahlavi Society that was run by the former Shah of Iran in the seventies , used to fund a loan from Bank Melli . After the 1979 revolution, the new Iranian government seized the building , according to the offices of the Attorney General , pointing out that the Pahlavi Foundation changed its name and became a foundation Mustzhvan , and loft Foundation .
He acknowledged former head of the institution loft in 2009 of obstructing the work of the judiciary through the destruction of evidence in connection with the case , which first filed a complaint in 2008.
Al Alawi reported that it intends to appeal the verdict in a statement posted on its website , which expressed " disappointment " over the verdict saying he was " not possible to have a veto government's evidence before a jury ."
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