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not clear whether the prosecution of individuals in the Standard Chartered case “is the result of the actions of these 2 being so blatant & egregious, the huge $ amount & number of transactions at issue, the primary country at issue being Iran or the start of a new trend 
But even as Elyassi’s transactions washed through the global financial system, they began to set off alarms at European & US banks that detected Iranian links. Several banks rejected the transactions, & even Standard Chartered’s own internal alerts flagged dozens of the payments
The banker coached Elyassi on structuring payments to hide Iranian ties -- telling him to stop sending payments directly from the account to Iranian entities and instead to transfer them through a personal account first, the U.S. says.
The new account was opened a day after the old one was closed, and remained open for nine more months -- processing more than 200 transactions during that time, even after it immediately began generating a new series of red flags, according to the filings.
