This news release is issued in respect of the restrictive measures directed against the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations.
Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 has been amended with effect from 12 June 2018 following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/855.
The amendment reflects the decision made on 5 June 2018 by the United Nations Security Council to amend the identifying information of 1 existing entry from the list to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources applies.
The following entry has been amended and is still subject to an asset freeze.
Amendment
Deleted information is in square brackets. Additional information appears in italics.
Entity
AL-NUSRAH FRONT FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LEVANT
a.k.a: (1) Al-Nusra Front (2) Al-Nusrah Front (3) Ansar al-Mujahideen Network (4) Conquest of the Levant Front (5) Fatah al-Sham Front (6) Fateh al-Sham Front (7) Front for the Conquest of Syria (8) Front for the Conquest of Syria / the Levant (9) Front for the Liberation of the Levant (10) Jabhat al-Nusrah (11) Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (12) Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (13) Jabhat Fath al Sham (14) Jabhat Fath al-Sham (15) Jabhet al-Nusra (16) Levantine Mujahideen On The Battlefields Of Jihad (17) The Front for the Liberation of al Sham (18) The Victory Front (19) Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (20) Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham (21) Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (22) Assembly for the Liberation of Syria (23) Assembly for the Liberation of the Levant (24) Liberation of al-Sham Commission (25) Liberation of the Levant Organisation Tahrir al-Sham; (26) Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at
Other Information: UN Ref. QDe.137 Operates in Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq.
Listed on: 29/05/2014 Last Updated: [16/06/2017] 12/06/2018 Group ID: 12981.
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 entity. 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 FIU. Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or economic resources held frozen for the designated entity 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 ISIL and Al-Qaida and links to the UK’s 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.
