The claim that the money from Iran was transferred to the Swiss Central Bank
According to Yonhap Infomax news from the South Korean media, Iran’s frozen assets in South Korea were transferred to Switzerland.
In the news, which is based on an unnamed source, it was stated that the transferred assets as South Korean currency will be converted to dollars and then to euros by the Swiss National Bank in about 5 weeks.
6 BILLION DOLLARS
It has been observed that the Swiss National Bank will convert an average of $240 million every day out of $6 billion in money.
In some news in the US and Iranian media, it was claimed that the two countries agreed to exchange some Iranian citizens arrested in the US with 5 Americans detained in Iran, and Iran’s access to blocked oil revenues of approximately $ 6 billion. in South Korea
The sources stated that around $6 billion of Iran’s assets in South Korea would be transferred to an account at the Central Bank of Qatar. Tesnim, Iran’s semi-official news agency, announced that US prisoners who were released from prison and placed under house arrest would not be released until all foreign currency resources were transferred to an account in Qatar. (AA)
Source: Sozcu
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