News Release
Terrorist Financing: List of Suspects
24 October 2002
The Bank of England, as agent for Her Majesty's Treasury, has today directed all financial institutions that any funds which they hold for or on behalf of Jemaah Islamiya must be frozen. This is because the Treasury have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the Jemaah Islamiya is or may be a person who commits, attempts to commit, facilitates or participates in the commission of acts of terrorism. Financial institutions are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts for Jemaah Islamiya and, if so, they should freeze the accounts and report their findings to the Bank of England.
This name is in addition to those listed in:
- The Bank's Notices dated 18 October 2002, 14 August 2002, 18 July 2002, 19 April 2002, 9 January 2002, 28 December 2001, 21 December 2001 and 6 December 2001 - each entitled NOTICE CONTAINING A DIRECTION UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE TERRORISM (UNITED NATIONS MEASURES) ORDER 2001 (S.I. 2001/3365).
- The Bank's Notices dated 19 April 2002 and 11 March 2002 - each entitled NOTICE CONTAINING A DIRECTION UNDER ARTICLE 8 OF THE AL-QA'IDA AND TALIBAN (UNITED NATIONS MEASURES) ORDER 2002 (S.I. 2002/111);
This Notice also gives additional details in respect of the entities that were added to the consolidated list available here on the Bank of England's website, further to the Bank's Notice's of 11 October 2002 - Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 and 18 October 2002 - Terrorist Financing - List of Suspects
11 October 2002
This is to clarify that the Tunisian Combatant Group is also known as Groupe Combattant Tunisien and GCT
In addition, the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group is also known as Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain and GICM
18 October 2002
Further, the Bank has been advised of additional a.k.a's and an office for Global Relief Foundation:
A.k.a. GRF, and Secours mondial de France (SEMONDE) at: 49 rue du Lazaret, 67100, Strasbourg, France
Finally, the US prefix before VAT Number: BE 454,419,759 at the end of the Notice dated 18 October should be deleted. The VAT number is Belgian.
All these new details have been included in the consolidated list.
Note to Editors
The Bank has previously issued notices and news releases concerning Terrorism, Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban on 18 October, 11 October, 1 October, 12 September, 5 September, 14 August, 18 July, 19 April, 11 March, 9 January 2002, 28 December, 21 December and 6 December 2001. Earlier relevant Notices were issued on 3 May 2000, 23 February, 2 April, 10 & 12 October, 2 & 8 November 2001.
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