This news release is issued in respect of the restrictive measures directed against the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations.
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 has been amended with effect from 28 March 2019 following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2019/507.
The following entry is now subject to an asset freeze.
Addition
Entity
TARIQ GIDAR GROUP (TGG)
a.k.a: (1) COMMANDER TARIQ AFRIDI GROUP (2) TARIQ AFRIDI GROUP (3) TARIQ GEEDAR GROUP (4) TARIQ GIDAR AFRIDI GROUP (5) TEHREEK-I-TALIBAN PAKISTAN GEEDAR GROUP (6) TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN-TARIQ GIDAR GROUP (7) THE ASIAN TIGERS (8) TTP GEEDAR GROUP (9) TTP-TARIQ GIDAR GROUP
Address: Afghanistan/Pakistan border region.
Other Information: UN Ref: QDe.160. Splinter group of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (QDe.132). The group was formed in Darra Adam Khel, Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), Pakistan, in 2007.
Listed on: 28/03/2019 Last Updated: 28/03/2019 Group ID: 13786.
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.
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.
