Financial Sanctions: Somalia

The European Commission has amended Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No. 356/10 ("the 2010 Regulation") with effect from 16 October 2012.

Annex I of the 2010 Regulation lists the persons, entities or bodies designated by the United Nations Security Council or by the UN Sanctions Committee in accordance with Resolution 1844 (2008).

The amendments reflect the decisions made on 11 July, 25 July and 24 August by the United Nations Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) to add two individuals to the UN list and to amend the identifying information of one existing entry.

The individuals added to Annex I are therefore subject to the asset freeze imposed by the 2010 Regulation.

ADDITIONS

Individuals

AHMED, Abubaker, Shariff

DOB:

1. --/--/1962
2. --/--/1967

POB: Kenya

a.k.a.:

1. AHMED, Abubakar
2. AHMED, Sheikh, Abubakar
3. SHARIFF, Abu Makaburi
4. SHARIFF, Abubaker

Address: Majengo area, Mombasa, Kenya

Other Information: Close associate of Aboud Rogo. Also engaged in the mobilisation and management of funding for Al-Shabaab. Also referred to as Makaburi.

Group ID: 12737

MOHAMMED, Aboud, Rogo

DOB:

1. 11/11/1960
2. 11/11/1967
3. 11/11/1969
4. 01/01/1969

POB: Lamu Island, Kenya

a.k.a.:

1. MOHAMED, Aboud, Rogo
2. MUHAMMAD, Aboud, Rogo
3. ROGO, Sheikh, Aboud
4. ROGO, Aboud, Mohammad
5. ROGO, Aboud, Mohammed
6. ROGO, Aboud, Seif

Other Information: Extremist Islamic cleric based in Kenya. His activities include fundraising for Al-Shabaab. Main ideological leader of Al Hijra, formally known as the Muslim Youth Centre.

Group ID: 12735

AMENDMENT

Added information appears initalics.

Individual

JIM'ALE, Ali, Ahmed, Nur

DOB: --/--/1954

POB: Eilbur, Somalia

a.k.a.:

1. JIM'ALE, Ahmad, Ali
2. JIM'ALE, Ahmad, Nur, Ali
3. JIM'ALE, Ahmed, Ali
4. JIM'ALE, Shaykh, Ahmed, Nur
5. JIM'ALE, Sheikh, Ahmed

Nationality:

1. Somalia
2. Djibouti

Passport Details: A0181988 (Somalia). Expired 23 Jan 2011

Address: Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti

Other Information: A prominent businessman and figure in the Al-Shabaab charcoal-sugar trading cycle. Jim'ale is one of Al-Shabaab's chief financiers. As of fall 2007, Jim'ale established a front company in Djibouti for extremist activites called the Investors Group. As of September 2010, Jim'ale established ZAAD, a mobile-to-mobile money transfer business. As of December 2011, unidentified donors from the Middle East were transferring money to Jim'ale, who in turn used financial intermediaries to send the money to al-Shabaab.

Group ID: 12699

Financial institutions and other persons are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold funds or economic resources for, or provide financial services to, the designated persons. If so, they must freeze such accounts or other funds and, unless licensed by the Treasury, refrain from dealing with said funds or economic resources, and suspend the provision of any financial services. They must also report their findings to the Sanctions Officer at the Customs and Excise Division of the Treasury. Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or economic resources held frozen for the designated person they are not required to report these details again.

Further details of the sanctions regime related to Syria and links to the Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to other financial sanctions regimes may be found on the Customs and Excise pages of the Isle of Man Government website.