News Release
Terrorist Financing: List of Suspects
19 November 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 the international organisation Benevolence International Foundation, which operates as a charity in the US and also operates as Benevolence International Fund in Canada and Bosanska Idealna Futura in Bosnia must be frozen. This is because the Treasury have reasonable grounds for suspecting that Benevolence International Foundation is or may be a person who commits, attempts to commit, facilitates or participates in the commission of acts of terrorism and/or acts on behalf person(s) who do or may commit, attempt to commit, facilitate or participate in the commission of acts of terrorism. Financial institutions are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts for Benevolence International Foundation and, if so, they should freeze the accounts and report their findings to the Bank of England.
Further identifying details are given below.
Entities
1. BENEVOLENCE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION Employee Identification Number (U.S.) 363823186 (a.k.a. AL BIR AL DAWALIA, a.k.a. BIF, a.k.a. BIF-USA, a.k.a. MEZHDUNARODNYJ BLAGOTVORITEL'NYJ FOND)
US Locations:
1. 9838 S. Roberts Road Suite 1 W, Palos Hills,
Illinois, U.S.A.
2. P.O. Box 548, Worth, Illinois, U.S.A.
3. 20-24
Branford Place, Suite 705, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Foreign Locations:
4. Bashir Safar Ugli 69, Baku, Azerbaijan
5. 69 Boshir Safaroglu St., Baku, Azerbaijan
6. Sarajevo, Bosnia
7.
Zeneca, Bosnia
8. 3 King Street, South Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
9. P.O.
Box 1508 Station B, Mississauga, Ontario, L4Y4G2, Canada
10. 2465 Cawthra
Rd, #203, Mississauga, Ontario, L5A3P2, Canada
11. Ottawa, Canada
12.
Grozny, Chechnya
13. 91 Paihonggou, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
14. Hrvatov
30, 41000, Zagreb, Croatia
15. Makhachkala, Daghestan
16. Duisi,
Georgia
17. Tblisi, Georgia
18. Nazran, Ingushetia
19. Burgemeester
Kessensingel 40, Maastricht, Netherlands
20. House 111, First Floor, Street
64, F-10/3, Islamabad, Pakistan
21. P.O. Box 1055, Peshawar, Pakistan
22. Azovskaya 6, km.3, off. 401, Moscow, Russia 113149
23. Ulitsa
Oktyabrskaya, dom. 89, Moscow, Russia 127521
24. P.O. Box 1937, Khartoum,
Sudan
25. P.O. Box 7600, Jeddah 21472, Saudi Arabia
26. P.O. Box 10845,
Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia
27. Dushanbe, Tajikistan
28. United
Kingdom
BIF Activity:
29. Afghanistan
30. Bangladesh
31. Gaza
Strip
32. Herzegovina
33. Yemen
2. BENEVOLENCE INTERNATIONAL FUND (a.k.a. BIF-Canada, a.k.a. Benevolent International Fund)
Locations:
1. 2465 Cawthra Rd., Suite 203, Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada
2. P.O. Box 1508, Station B, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
3. P.O. Box 40015, 75 King Street South, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4.
201-92 King Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3. BOSANSKA IDEALNA FUTURA (a.k.a. BIF-Bosnia, a.k.a. Bosnian Ideal Future, d.b.a. BECF Charitable Educational Centre, d.b.a. Benevolence Educational Centre)
Locations:
1. Salke Lagumdzije 12, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia
2. Hadzije Mazica Put 16f, 72000 Zenica, Bosnia
3. Sehidska Street,
Breza, Bosnia
4. Kanal 1, Zenica, Bosnia
5. Hamze Celenke 35, Ilidza,
Sarajevo, Bosnia
The names are in addition to those listed in:
- · The Bank's Notices dated 24 October 2002, 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 release also gives revised details in respect of an individual who was added to the consolidated list available here on the Bank of England's website, further to the Bank's Notice of 1 October 2002 concerning the financial measures taken against Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban.
This is to clarify that the date of birth given for ESSABAR, Zakarya should be 13 April 1977 and not 3 April 1977, as stated previously.
All of these new details have been included in the consolidated list available by following the link in the Selected Topics.
Note to Editors
The Bank has previously issued Notices and news releases concerning Terrorism, Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban on 24 October, 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.
Key Resources
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November 2002: Bank of England Notice Download PDF |
