Terrorist station's accounts, assets, frozen
3. februar 2012, 12:00 – opdateret 3. februar 2012, 12:14
Danish banks will no longer accept Roj TV as a customer.
Imdat Yilmazm, Managing Director of the Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV station found guilty of promoting terrorism by a Danish court last month, said after the Danske Bank froze its accounts, Wednesday: "It looks like it's going to be extremely difficult to find anybody that will work with us. When Denmark’s biggest bank rejects you, others tend to follow suit."
Danske Bank has refused to comment on its action but in a letter to ROJ-TV stated the need to protect itself from carrying out transactions that 'could be construed as complicity with terrorism'.
Pernille Skipper, legal affairs spokesperson for the far-left Red/Green Alliance, accused the Bank of taking the law into its own hands as the terror ruling against ROJ TV has been appealed to the High Court.
Roj TV is now suing the Danske Bank to get its money back, around DKK500,000, much of which was deposited, and accepted by the bank, after the court's guilty verdict.
