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Financial Sanctions: Al-Qa'ida and Taliban Terrorist Financing: List of Suspects

26 January 2005

The Bank of England, as agent for Her Majesty's Treasury, has today directed financial institutions that any funds which they hold for or on behalf of the individual named below must be frozen. This is because Her Majesty's Treasury have reasonable grounds for suspecting that the individual is or may be:

  1. a person acting on behalf of a person designated by the UN Sanctions Committee in the list it maintains in accordance with Security Council resolution 1390, and/or

  2. 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 or otherwise hold any funds for the individual named below and, if so, they should freeze the accounts or other funds and report their findings to the Bank of England.

Individual

DARWISH, Sulayman, Khalid
DOB: (1) --/--/1976 (2) --/--/1974
POB: Outside Damascus, Syria
a.k.a.: ABU AL-GHADIYA
Nationality: Syria
Passport Details: (1) No 3936712 [Syria] (2) No 11012 [Syria]
Address: Syria

The above name is in addition to those listed in previous Bank Notices containing directions under Article 4 of the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3365) and under Article 8 of the Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/111, as amended by S.I. 2002/251).

Previous Notices and news releases related to Terrorism, Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban and a consolidated list of individuals and entities subject to these and other UK financial sanctions regimes are available from the Financial Sanctions pages.

Key Resources

Bank of England Notice, United Nations Act 1946
Notice containing a direction under Article 4 of The Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3365)
26 January 2005
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Bank of England Notice, United Nations Act 1946
Notice containing a direction under Article 8 of The Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (s.i. 2002/111)
26 January 2005
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