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 13 June 2014, following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 630/2014.
The amendment reflects the decision made on 2 June 2014 by the United Nations Sanctions Council (UNSC) Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) to add three entities, and remove two individuals from the UN Al-Qaida list, and to amend the identifying information of three existing entries.
ADDITIONS
Entities
AL MOUAKAOUNE BIDDAM
a.k.a.:
- Ceux Qui Signent avec le Sang
- Les Signataires par le Sang
- Those Who Sign in Blood
Address: Mali
Other Information: UN Ref QE.M.139.14.
Group ID: 12983
AL MOULATHAMOUN
a.k.a.:
- Les Enturnannes
- The Veiled
Address:
- Niger
- Mali
- Algeria
Other Information: UN Ref QE.M.140.14. Active in the Sahel/Sahara
Group ID: 12984
AL MOURABITOUN
a.k.a.:
- Les Sentinelles
- The Sentinels
Address: Mali
Other Information: UN Ref QE.M.141.14. Active in the Sahel/Sahara
Group ID: 12985
DELISTINGS
Individuals
SALI JR, JAINAL, ANTEL
DOB: 01/06/1965
POB: Barangay Lanote, Bliss, Isabela, Basilan, Philippines
a.k.a.:
- ABU SOLAIMAN
- ABU SOLAYMAN
- SOLAIMAN, Apong
Nationality: Filipino
Other Information: UN Ref QI.S.209.05. Also referred to as Apung. Reportedly deceased in 2007.
Group ID: 8789
KASHMIRI, MOHAMMAD, ILYAS
Title: Mufti
DOB:
- 02/01/1964
- 10/02/1964
POB: Bhimber, Samahani Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir
a.k.a.:
- AL-KASHMIRI, Elias
- ILYAS, Naib Amir
- KASHMIRI, Muhammad, Ilyas
Address: Thathi Village, Samahni, Bhimber District, Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Other Information: UN Ref QI.K.284.10. Provides support to Al-Qaida operations. Was the Commander of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami. Previously had the title Maulana. Reportedly deceased in Pakistan on 11 June 2011.
Group ID: 11269
The individuals removed from Annex I is therefore no longer subject to the asset freeze imposed by the 2002 Regulation.
AMENDMENTS
Deleted information appears in square brackets [ ]. Additional information appears initalics.
Individuals
AL-JAWLANI, ABU MOHAMMED
DOB:
- --/--/1975
- --/--/1976
- --/--/1977
- --/--/1978
- --/--/1979
POB: Syria
a.k.a.:
- AL-GOLANI, Abu Mohammed
- AL-GOLANI, Abu Muhammad
- ALJAWLANI, Abu Muhammad
- AL-JAWLANI, Abu Mohamed
- AL-JAWLANI, Abu Muhammad
- AL-JAWLANI, Muhammad
- AL-JULANI, Abu Mohammed
Nationality: Syrian
Other Information: UN Ref QI.A.317.13. Active in Syria as at June 2013. Since Jan. 2012, he is the Leader of [Jabhat al Nusrah] Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant [a Syria based group listed, in May 2013, as an alias of al-Qaida in Iraq.] Associated with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Also known as Shayky al-Fatih and Al Fatih. Date of birth is approximate.
Group ID: 12883
UMAROV, DOKU, KHAMATOVICH
DOB: 12/05/1964
POB: Kharsenoy Village, Shatoyskiy (Sovetskiy) District, Chechenskaya Respublika, Russian Federation
Nationality:
- Russian
- USSR (until 1991)
Other Information: UN Ref QI.U.290.11. Resides in the Russian Federation as at Nov 2010. International arrest warrant issued in the year 2000. Reportedly deceased as of April 2014.
Group ID: 11688
Entity
AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ
a.k.a.:
- [AL NUSRAH FRONT]
- Al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers
- al-Tawhid
- al-Zarqawi network
- AQI
- ISI
- ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND THE LEVANT
- Islamic State of Iraq
- [JABHAT AL NUSRAH]
- [JABHET AL NUSRAH]
- Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wa’al-Jihad
- JTJ
- Qaida of the Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers
- Tanzeem Qa’idat al Jihad/Bilad al Raafidaini
- Tanzim Qa’idat Al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn
- The Monotheism and Jihad Group
- The Organization Base of Jihad/Country of the Two Rivers
- The Organization Base of Jihad/Mesopotamia
- The Organization of Jihad’s Base in the Country of the Two Rivers
- [THE VICTORY FRONT]
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 sanctions regimes may be found on the Customs and Excise pages of the Isle of Man Government website.