On April 24 2015, the New York branch of Barclays bank filed a report to the US Treasury describing suspicious transactions in the accounts of one of its clients. The accounts in question, in Dubai and Cyprus, were held in the name of Paramount Logistics Corp (PLC), part of the private defence and aerospace group Paramount, controlled by controversial SA-born arms trader Ivor Ichikowitz.

It would be the first in a string of reports Barclays produced on its client around questionable wire transfers...

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