报告引用的最能将渣打治罪的文件之一,是渣打律师团队的备忘录和电子邮件,他们涉嫌建议在电汇指令中不列明伊朗客户的名称,因为这可能触发来自纽约监管当局的检查。该行法律及合规主管则被指控参与“瞪羚计划(Project Gazelle),该计划的目的是在不给纽约分行带来“违反制裁禁令风险的情况下,建立与伊朗客户的业务往来。鉴于以上指控内容,本周听证会的开场白有可能是:“我们要做的第一件事,是把律师通通干掉。
Indeed, the order puts the bank’s senior attorneys and compliance officers at the heart of the wire stripping scheme, even when outside counsel advised otherwise. As early as 1995, soon after President Bill Clinton announced economic sanctions against Iran, the bank’s general counsel allegedly “embraced a framework for regulatory evasion. He allegedly strategised about how to avoid scrutiny by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, known as OFAC, and instructed employees that a memorandum describing the plan to avoid regulatory compliance was “highly confidential and MUST NOT be sent to the US.
报告实际上将渣打的高级律师以及合规主管们置于电汇代码消除阴谋的核心,而当时该行的外部法律顾问曾给出与内部律师相反的意见。报告指出,早在1995年,当时的美国总统比尔·克林顿(Bill Clinton)宣布对伊朗实施经济制裁后不久,渣打的法律总顾问就“采纳了一整套逃避监管的方案。据称,他设计了躲避外国资产控制办公室(Office of Foreign Assets Control,简称OFAC)检查的策略,并向手下员工指示,一份描述该行逃避监管合规要求计划的备忘录是“高度机密并且绝不能被传至美国。
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