This news release is issued to publicise the amendment of four entries under the UN 1988 sanctions regime.
This regime imposes an asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo on individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban in constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan as designated by the Committee on the List established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011).
This update has effect under the Terrorism and Other Crime (Financial Restrictions) Act 2014.
On 13 April 2026 the United Nations Security Council updated the UN Consolidated List.
Amendment
Four entries have been amended on the UN Consolidated List and are still subject to an asset freeze. Information can be found in the Annex to this Notice.
Deleted information appears struck through. Additional information appears underlined.
What you must do in relation to amendments
If, through your sanctions compliance programme, you identify a possible match to a person or entity included in the Sanctions Lists, and you hold or otherwise deal with funds or economic resources of that person:
- You must immediately freeze any assets you hold or otherwise deal with belonging to that person (assets includes funds and economic resources, owned directly or indirectly by that person)
- You must review the information you hold for that person against the Sanctions Lists to establish whether you have a true match or a 'false positive' (see section 8 of the Financial Sanctions General Guidance)
- Where a true match is confirmed, do not deal with those assets or make them available to, or for the benefit of the designated person unless:
- You have a legal exemption
- You have a licence
- You must report the frozen assets to the FIU
If you have a suspicion or knowledge that there has been a breach of sanctions law, or any attempted transactions that you have blocked, report your suspicions to the FIU.
Failure to comply with financial and trade sanctions legislation or to attempting to circumvent its provisions is a criminal offence.
Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or economic resources held frozen for the designated person, you are not required to report these details again.
Note: determining if a customer is on the Sanctions Lists includes whether any corporate entity is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by a person on the Sanctions Lists.
