Looking like big US players are blocking $$ transfer. We are not really surprised, aren`t we ? Hope Mt. Gox will find solutions to circumvent the hiatus. It would be interesting what Citibanks "internal guidelines" are stating.
First of all this is very helpful. Thanks for the useful information. It clears out some BS from Gox and makes us understand that the banks are playing dirty.
Second you are in Switzerland but still your transfers from Japan do not get through - which means that there are US banks involved in the Swift transfer (the ones you mentioned) and they are (likely illegally) performing a blockade.
Go sue them. Good luck
I was just reading about the SWIFT (international wire) system and read something very alarming :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT#US_Control_over_Transactions_within_the_European_Union
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US Control over Transactions within the European Union
On 26 February 2012 the Danish newspaper Berlingske reported that US authorities evidently have sufficient control over SWIFT to seize money being transferred between two EU countries (Denmark and Germany), since they have seized around U$26,000 which were being transferred from a Danish to a German bank. The money was a payment by a Danish businessman for a batch of Cuban cigars previously imported to Germany by a German supplier. As justification for the seizure, the U.S. Treasury has stated that the Danish businessman has violated the United States embargo against Cuba.[23]
On 26 February 2012 the Danish newspaper Berlingske reported that US authorities evidently have sufficient control over SWIFT to seize money being transferred between two EU countries (Denmark and Germany), since they have seized around U$26,000 which were being transferred from a Danish to a German bank. The money was a payment by a Danish businessman for a batch of Cuban cigars previously imported to Germany by a German supplier. As justification for the seizure, the U.S. Treasury has stated that the Danish businessman has violated the United States embargo against Cuba.[23]
WTF ! If the US decides to go after Bitcoin in a big and more overt way then they could disrupt transactions which go nowhere near a US bank.