Financial Interdictions To Curb Proliferation

摘要

Over the past four decades, the world has gotten several glimpses of the illicit procurement methods used to support nuclear programs: Iraq's diversion in the 1980s of agricultural loan funds into its nuclear procurement program, the payment schemes of the Abdul Qadeer Khan network as part of its sale of uranium hexafluoride to Libya,~1 and the fraudulent transactions through New York banks of shell companies linked to IRISL, Iran's state-owned shipping company.