According to OFAC, in response, Bank Austria removed Iranian addresses and other identifying information from the payments or changed them to benign locations such as "Austria" or "Dubai" and resubmitted them. [21] OFAC alleged that Bank Austria was generally aware of the prohibitions of U.S. economic sanctions, evidenced by certain requests made to UniCredit Group compliance personnel for exemptions from existing sanctions related internal policies, and took these steps to avoid such prohibitions on USD transactions. [22] Similar to UCB AG, OFAC also stated that Bank Austria had access to certain shipment and other transaction information to show that other payments it processed on behalf of certain Central Asian customers also related to Iran. [23]