Posted on 04/18/2014 10:10:47 AM PDT by mandaladon
On Tuesday morning, a plane owned in trust by the Bank of Utah showed up in a very visible area of the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What was it doing there exactly? Nobody knows, reports The New York Times.
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has eased some of the long-standing punitive economic sanctions against Iran. Still, very little American — or European — economic activity is allowed inside the religious theocracy.
The Bank of Utah is certainly no Wells Fargo. The Ogden-based community bank has all of 13 branches including three in Ogden, two in Salt Lake City and one in Trementon (pop. 7,647). Its humble motto is: “Experience. Service.”
The bank’s senior officials say they are baffled.
“We have no idea why that plane was at that airport,” Brett King, a Bank of Utah executive in Salt Lake City, told the Times.
“As fiduciary, we must keep information confidential when it comes to the beneficiary,” he added.
King also called the Bank of Utah “very conservative” and promised to get to the bottom of the situation “if there is any hint of illegal activity.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Is the Bank of Utah the one bank still allowed to give out college student loans?
Mormon missionaries???
The FAA airplane registry lists the owner, not necessarily the operator. My guess is that the bank owns the plane, and has leased it to a company in a country that can legally fly into Iran.
Thanks. Got it...
Where there is a buck to be made you can guarantee that some soulless corporation will be there.
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Odds are the bank has that jet leased to somebody —
So who is it leased to??? and why are they in Iran??? and do they have the bank’s permission to fly their leased jet into Iran???
What business does the Bank of Utah have that requires a private jet capable of transoceanic travel?
And what is that jet doing in the capital of a country with which US firms supposedly are forbidden to have financial dealings (IRAN)?
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Them missionaries go EVERY WHERE
From Yahoo News Comment section:
The US-registered Bombardier corporate jet, carrying the registration number N604EP, is owned and operated by a Ghana-based engineering firm. Its CEO is Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, the younger brother of Ghana’s then-Vice President H.E. John Dramani Mahama, who became Ghana’s president in July, 2012.
Here’s a better question. The USAid arm of the state department gave $97.8 million to Ghana in 2012, the plane was bought and registered in 2013. So how much of US taxpayer money funded the purchase ($42 million) of that stnking plane?
“The US-registered Bombardier corporate jet, carrying the registration number N604EP, is owned and operated by a Ghana-based engineering firm. Its CEO is Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, the younger brother of Ghana’s then-Vice President H.E. John Dramani Mahama, who became Ghana’s president in July, 2012. Here’s a better question. The USAid arm of the state department gave $97.8 million to Ghana in 2012...”
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Speaking of Ghana - chech out the timing of the fake ingot flight with this thread’s aircraft sighting ... just wonderin.’
From Zerohedge :
“As South China Morning Post reports, police were last night making arrangements with a mainland businessman to check whether HK$270 million of gold bullion he bought in Africa was genuine after part of the consignment was swapped with metal bars.
On Wednesday, Zhao Jingjun, 43, opened part of his shipment in front of his buyer in Hong Kong and discovered the gold had been switched for worthless metal.
A senior officer said it would be the city’s biggest heist in a decade if it was confirmed that all the gold had been stolen.
An initial inquiry showed Zhao purchased 998kg of gold bars from a company in Ghana in mid-April [2014], police said. “
The consignment, in 14 cases, was escorted by his staff and delivered from Ghana on a chartered flight late last month.[may 2014]
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