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Financial Sanctions: ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida

Thursday, 12 March 2020

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 11 March 2020  following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2020/390 (“the Amending Regulation”).

The Amending Regulation reflects the decisions made on 4 March 2020 by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1267 (1999), 1988 (2011) and 2253 (2015) to add 3 entities to the UN ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations list.

The following entries are now subject to an asset freeze.

Additions

Entities

JAMAAH ANSHARUT DAULAH

a.k.a.:           (1) Jamaah Ansharut Daulat;

                    (2) Jemaah Ansharot Daulah.

Other information: UN Ref: QDe.164. Established in 2015 as an umbrella group of Indonesian extremist groups that pledged allegiance to then-ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Associated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). UN Listing.

Listed on:      05/03.2020              Last updated:         11/03/2020

Group ID:   13830.

ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND THE LEVANT – LIBYA

a.k.a.:             (1)  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya;

                    (2)  Wilayat Al-Tarablus;

                   (3)  Wilayat Barqa;

                    (4) Wilayat Fezzan;

                    (5)  Wilayat Tarablus;

                   (6)  Wilayat Tripolitania;

Other information:  UN Ref: QDi.165.  Formed in November 2014 upon announcement by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Al-Badri Al-Samarrai (QDi.299). Associated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). UN Listing.

Listed on:     05/03/2020              Last updated:         11/03/2020

Group ID:   13831

ISLAMIC STATE IN IRAQ AND THE LEVANT – YEMEN

a.k.a.:          (1)  ISIL in Yemen;

                   (2)  ISIS in Yemen;

                   (3)  Islamic State in Yemen;

                   (4)  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of Yemen;

                    (5)  Wilayat al-Yemen, Province of Yemen.

Other information:  UN Ref:  QDe.166.  Formed in November 2014 upon acceptance of oaths of allegiance by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Al-Badri Al-Samarrai (QDi.299). Associated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115).

Listed on:      05/03/2020              Last updated:         11/03/2020

Group ID:   13832

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 entities. 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.

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