This news release is issued in respect of the financial sanctions in view of the situation in the Central African Republic.
Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) No 224/2014 has been amended with effect from 1 September 2016, following the publication of Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2016/1442.
The amendment reflects the decision made on 26 August 2016 by the United Nations Sanctions Council (UNSC) Committee established pursuant to Resolution 2127 (2013) to add two persons to the list, and to update one existing entry.
ADDITIONS
Individuals
KONY, Ali
DOB: (1) --/--/1994. (2) --/--/1993. (3) --/--/1995. (4) --/--/1992.
a.k.a: (1) "1-P" (2) "BASHIR" (3) "CAESAR" (4) "ONE-P" (5) BASHIR, Ali , Lalobo (6) KAPERE, Otim (7) KONY, Ali, Mohammed (8) LABOLA, Ali, Mohammed (9) LABOLO, Ali, Mohammad (10) LALOBO, Ali (11) LALOBO, Ali, Bashir (12) LALOBO, Ali, Mohammed (13) MOHAMMED, Ali (14) SALONGO, Ali, Mohammed
Address: Kafia Kingi (border of Sudan and South Sudan).
Position: Deputy, Lord's Resistance Army
Other Information: Son of LRA Leader Joseph Kony. Ali incorporated into LRA's leadership hierarchy in 2010 and part of a group of senior LRA offices based with Joseph Kony. Is seen as potential successor to Jospeh Kony as leader of the LRA. Listed on: 01/09/2016 Last Updated: 02/09/2016 Group ID: 13378.
KONY, Salim
DOB: (1) --/--/1992. (2) --/--/1991. (3) --/--/1993.
a.k.a: (1) KONY, Salim, Saleh (2) OBOL, Simon, Salim (3) OGARO, Salim (4) OGARO, Salim, Saleh, Obol (5) SALEH, Salim (6) SALIM, Okolu
Address: Kafia Kingi (border of Sudan and South Sudan).
Position: Deputy, Lord's Resistance Army
Other Information: Salim Konyis is a son of LRA leader Joseph Kony and incorporated into the LRA's leadership hierarchy in 2010. He is part of a group of senior LRA officers based with Joseph Kony and responsible for enforcing discipline within the LRA. Listed on: 01/09/2016 Last Updated: 02/09/2016 Group ID: 13379.
AMENDMENTS
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Individual
YOUNOUS ABDOULAY, Oumar
DOB: 02/04/1970.
a.k.a: (1) M'BETIBANGUI, Oumar, Younous (2) SODIAM, Oumar (3) YOUNOUS, Omar (4) YOUNOUS, Oumar
Nationality: Sudan
Passport Details: CAR diplomatic passport No D00000898, issued on 11 April 2013, (valid until 10 April 2018).
Address: (1) a) Bria, Central African Republic (Tel: +236 75507560).. (2) b) Birao, Central African Republic. (3) c) Tullus, southern Darfur, Sudan (previous location).
Other Information: Reportedly deceased as at 11 October 2015. Former three-star general of the Seleka and close confident of former CAR interim president Michel Djotodia. In October 2008, Oumar Younous, a former driver for the diamond buying house SODIAM, joined the rebel group Mouvement des Libérateurs Centrafricains pour la Justice (MLCJ). Younous is a diamond smuggler and is involved in the diamond trade from Bria and Sam Ouandja to Sudan. Physical description: hair colour: black, height: 180cm, belongs to the Fulani ethnic group. Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice. Listed on: 03/09/2015 Last Updated: 02/09/2016 Group ID: 13273.
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 individual they are not required to report these details again.
Failure to comply with financial sanctions legislation or to seek to circumvent its provisions is a criminal offence.
Further details of the sanctions regime related to the Central African Republic 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.
