If we accept as true the fact that BDA money was the proceeds of crime, then whatever the State Department does to refund that money for political reasons is a crime. Frankly, asking a US bank to assist in transferring money, and offering to exempt that unnamed bank from the law puts foreign policy above the law. How can you exempt a financial institution from the anti-money laundering laws we have in place? Is this not fundamentally wrong? 

It is rumoured that a Russian bank has agreed to take the funds from the US bank, and then forward them to the North Korean government. As soon as there is any meaningful verification of this, World-Check will update its readers on this important topic. Latest reports say $20m was remitted yesterday; we await confirmation of thr amount and the identity of the financial institution that was the recipient.