Iranian President Hasan Ruhani has instructed the Central Bank to take action with international institutions to return about $ 9 billion of Iranian money, which was blocked in South Korea.
Evaluating the blocking of Iranian Central Bank resources in South Korea as “unacceptable”, Ruhani asked the Seoul administration to remove the blocking as soon as possible.
Meeting with the Iranian Central Bank President Abdunnasır Himmeti on the phone, Ruhani instructed legal methods before international institutions to return their blocked money.
Spiritual asked for the Iranian Central Bank and the Iranian Foreign Ministry to work in coordination for this.
“WE WANTED 50 MILLIONS TO TAKE DRUG FROM KOREA”
Hüseyin Tenhayi, President of the Iranian-South Korean Joint Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement to the press that Iran has blocked 6.5 to 9 billion dollars of money at South Korean banks.
Secluded, “South Korea has been blocking our assets for at least a year and a half. Our trade relations with this country decreased significantly last year with the increase of sanctions and approached zero. We asked Korea to pay our $ 50 million money for food and medicine purchases due to the problems we experienced after the Corona virus outbreak, but he refused. ”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry had previously reported that Iran would receive $ 7 billion in oil for South Korea.
On the other hand, prior to the sanctions on the Iranian oil sector, which the US launched in November 2018, South Korea imported nearly 200 thousand barrels of oil daily from Iran. (DHA)
