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September 4, 2015: OSFI, DFAT play follow the leader with UN
On Friday, Canadian and Australian regulators updated their terrorism sanctions lists, following two updates made by the United Nations. First, they added the following person: QDi.355 Name: 1: SOFIANE...
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OFAC Enforcement Action: 222 Securities-Related Violations costs UBS another...
Long story short: UBS had a customer subject to anti-terrorism sanctions under Executive Order 13224. That customer had different securities held in UBS custody accounts around the world, including the...
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September 8, 2015: OFAC’s Week of Terror Begins
Last Tuesday, OFAC added an individual linked to Hizballah and 3 associated with Hamas to the SDN List under its anti-terror sanctions program: DEIF, Muhammed (a.k.a. AL-DAYF, Muhammad; a.k.a....
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September 9, 2015: OFAC’s Week of Terror Continues
On Wednesday, OFAC designated an Algerian national under its anti-terror sanctions: AL 'ANABI, Abu 'Ubaydah Yusuf (a.k.a. ABU OBEIDA, Youcef; a.k.a. ABU UBAYDAH, Yusuf; a.k.a. AL-ANABI, Yusuf...
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September 10, 2015: OFAC’s Week of Terror Concludes with Hamas
The day before 9/11, OFAC designated more individuals linked to Hamas: AL-AGHA, Abu Ubaydah Khayri Hafiz (a.k.a. AGHA, Abu Obaida Khairy Hafiz; a.k.a. AGHA, Abu Ubaydah Khayr; a.k.a. AL AGHA, Abu...
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September 9-10: UN, DFAT, OSFI remove Yasser Mohamed Ismail Abu Shaweesh from...
Last week, Canadian and Australian regulators removed the following person: QDi.201 Name: 1: YASSER 2: MOHAMED 3: ISMAIL 4: ABU SHAWEESH Name (original script): ياسر محمد اسماعيل أبوشاويش Title: na...
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September 16, 2015: FINMA tells terrorists: You win one, you lose one
On Wednesday, Swiss regulators added the following person to their Consolidated List undet their Al-Qaida/Bin Laden/Taliban sanctions: SSID: 10-31803 Foreign identifier: QDi.355 Name: Sofiane Ben Goumo...
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Who is Sofiane Ben Goumo?
Recently added by the UN, who provides these wonderful explanations of why someone was designated: Sofiane Ben Goumo was listed on 3 September 2015 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161...
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September 11, 2015: HK SFC circular updates E.O. 13224, UN anti-terror list...
The Hong Kong Securites and Futures Commission (SFC) periodically issues circulars to its member firms alerting them to changes made by the UN to its Al-Qaida sanctions (they include a PDF of all the...
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September 21-22, 2015: UN, DFAT, OSFI add 4 to Al-Qaida sanctions
Early last week, both the Canadian and Australian regulators incorporate 4 new individual listings: QDi.379 Name: 1: ABD AL-AZIZ 2: ADAY 3: ZIMIN 4: AL-FADHIL Name (original script): عبدالعزیز عدي زمین...
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September 29, 2015: Ending Q3 with a bang at OFAC (not a bomb)
On Tuesday, OFAC designated 25 individuals: AL-HARBI, Nasir Muhammad 'Awad al-Ghidani (a.k.a. AL-HARBI, Nasir Muhammad 'Iwad al-Ghaydani; a.k.a. “AL-GHAYDANI, Abu-Bilal”; a.k.a. “AL-HARBI, Abu-Bilal”;...
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October 5, 2015: OFAC finds 3 more terrorists
On Monday, while Mr. Watchlist was in the air en route to Singapore, OFAC designated the following 3 persons: ATABIYEV, Islam Seit-Umarovich (a.k.a. ATABIEV, Islam; a.k.a. ATABIYEV, Islam; a.k.a....
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October 2, 2015: OFAC desgnates Aseel Muthana a terrorist
On Friday, OFAC designated the following person under its anti-terrorism sanctions program: MUTHANA, Aseel (a.k.a. “Abu Fariss”), Syria; DOB 1996 to 1997; nationality United Kingdom (individual)...
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September 28-29: OSFI, DFAT update terrorism sanctions
On the 28th and 29th, Australian and Canadian regulators implemented two sets of changes from the United Nations Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. First, the following 4 persons were added to the sanctions...
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October 5, 2015: UN, OSFI add a half-dozen Al-Qaida sanctions
On Monday, Canadian regulators added the following 6 persons to its Consolidated List under its Al-Qaida sanctions program: QDi.363 Name: 1: MAGHOMED 2: MAGHOMEDZAKIROVICH 3: ABDURAKHMANOV 4: na Name...
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October 6, 2015: DFAT catches up a day late…
Australian regulators added those 6 persons from the UN Sanctions Committee for Al-Qaida sanctions that OSFI added on the 5th… QDi.363 Name: 1: MAGHOMED 2: MAGHOMEDZAKIROVICH 3: ABDURAKHMANOV 4: na...
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September 30-October 1: Al-Qaida Triple Play!
Last Wednesday and Thursday, DFAT and OSFI implemented a trio of UN updates to the Al-Qaida sanctions lists – all additions. They added the following persons: QDi.375 Name: 1: BOUBAKER 2: BEN HABIB 3:...
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October 1, 2015: EU, HMT add 4, delist 1 from Al-Qaida sanctions
On October 1, Her Majesty's Treasury implemented Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/1740 by adding the following 4 individuals to the Consolidated List under its Al-Qaida sanctions...
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October 10, 2015: EU, HMT add 20, remove 2 from Al-Qaida lists
On Saturday, Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) implemented Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/1815, by adding the following 18 persons (Aseel and Nasser Ahmed Muthana were previously sanctioned...
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September 18, 2015: HK SFC issues circular on UNSC changes
On September 18th, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a circular alerting firms to recent changes made by the United Nations Sanctions Committe and adopted under the United...
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