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 28 September 2014, following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1022/2014.
One individual added in error to the Annex to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 has been removed and the identifying information for two existing entries amended.
DELISTED
Individual
RAHMAT, Qari
DOB:
- --/--/1981
- --/--/1982
POB: Shadal (variant Shadaal) Bazaar, Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
a.k.a.: RAHMAT, Kari
Address:
- Kamkai Village, Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
- Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Other Information: UN Reference No: TI.R.172.14
Group ID: 13090
AMENDMENTS
Deleted information appears in square brackets [ ]. Additional information appears in italics.
Individuals
BELMOKHTAR, Mokhtar
DOB: 01/06/1972
POB: Ghardaia, Algeria
a.k.a.:
- ABOU EL ABASS, Belaouar, Khaled
- ABOU EL ABASS, Belaouer, Khaled
- ABOU EL ABASS, Khaled
- ABOU EL ABBES, Khaled
- ABOU EL ABES, Belmokhtar, Khaled
- ABOU EL ABES, Khaled
- BELMUKHTAR, Mukhtar
- KHALED, Abou Abbes
- OOR, Khaled, Abulabbas, Na
Nationality: Algerian
Other Information: UN Ref QI.B.136.03. Also referred to as Belaoua and Belaour. Father’s name is Mohamed. Mother’s name is Zohra Chemkha. Member of the Council of the Organization of Al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb. [Head of Katibat el Moulathamoune active in AQIM’s 4th region (Sahel/Sahara).] Head of Al Mouakaoune Biddam, Al Moulathamoun and Al Mourabitoun.
Group ID: 7881
AL-‘ALI, Hamid, Hamad, Hamid
DOB: 17/11/1960
POB:
- Kuwait
- Qatar
Nationality: Kuwaiti
Passport:
- 001714467 (Kuwaiti)
- 101505554 (Kuwaiti)
Other Information: A Kuwait-based financier, recruiter and facilitator for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QE.J.115.04), and Jabhat al-Nusrah, listed as Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14). Associated with Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (QI.A.299.11) and Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani (QI.A.317.13).
Group ID: 13088
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 individuals. If so, they must freeze such accounts or other funds and, unless licenced 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.
