This news release is issued in respect of the restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al-Qaida network.
Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 has been amended with effect from 30 June 2013, following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 632/2013. The amendment reflects the decision made on 30 May 2013 by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999) to amend the identifying information of one existing entry on the UN Al-Qaida list.
AMENDMENT
Additional information appears initalics.
Entity
AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ
a.k.a.:
- Al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers
- al-Tawhid
- al-Zarqawi network
- AQI
- ISI
- Islamic State of Iraq
- Jama'at Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad
- Jabhat al Nusrah
- Jabhet al-Nusrah
10.Al-Nusrah Front
11.The Victory Front
12.Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant
13.Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
14. JTJ
15. Qaida of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers
16. Tanzeem Qa'idat al Jihad/Bilad al Raafidaini
17. Tanzim Qa'idat Al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn
18. The Monotheism and Jihad Group
19. The Organization Base of Jihad/Country of the Two Rivers
20. The Organization Base of Jihad/Mesopotamia
21. The Organization of Jihad's Base in the Country of the Two Rivers
Other Information: UN Ref QE.J.115.04
Group ID: 8441
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 or entities. 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 persons or entities, they are not required to report these details again.
Further details of the sanctions regime related to Al-Qaida and links to the Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to other financial regimes may be found on the Customs and Excise pages of the Isle of Man Government website.
