News Release
Financial Sanctions: Liberia

10 June 2005

With the publication of Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2005 in the Official Journal of the European Union, (O.J. L146, p.5) on 10 June 2005, the Commission of the European Communities has again amended the list of those subject to the financial sanctions applicable to the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, Jewell Howard Taylor and Charles Taylor Jr., other immediate family members, his former senior officials and other close allies and associates as designated by the Committee of the Security Council established pursuant to paragraph 21 of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1521 (2003). The list of targeted persons set out in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2005 amends and replaces the list of targeted persons in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 872/2004. Annex I was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2004.

The Bank of England, on behalf of Her Majesty’s Treasury, therefore announces that with effect from 11 June 2005 all funds or economic resources belonging to the persons listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 872/2004, as amended and replaced by the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 874/2005, must be frozen. No funds or economic resources are to be made available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of the listed persons. Financial institutions and other bodies and persons in the UK must check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold any funds for the individuals named and, if so, they should freeze the accounts or other funds and report the accounts or other funds and amounts frozen to the Bank of England.

Copies of this Commission Regulation and previous Regulations, and the related Bank Notices, regarding the financial sanctions regime against Liberia are available from the Financial Sanctions pages of the Bank of England website.

The amendments made by the Commission of the European Communities, which take the form of additional information in relation to 20 individuals who were already subject to the Liberia financial sanctions regime, are set out below.

Amendments
(Added information appears in italics. Deleted information appears in strikethrough).

Individuals

1. BOUT, Viktor, Anatoljevitch
DOB: (1) 13 January 1967 (2) 13 January 1970
a.k.a.: (1) BONT (2) BOUTOV (3) BUTT (4) BUTTE (5) SERGITOV, Vitali
Passport Details: (1) No. 21N0532664 (2) No. 29N0006765 (3) No. 21N0557148 (4) No. 44N3570350
Other Information: Businessman, dealer and transporter of weapons and minerals

2. CISSE, M, Moussa
DOB: (1) 24 December 1946 (2) 26 June 1944 (3) 14 December 1957 (4) 26 July 1946 (5) 24 December 1944
POB: (1) Gbarnga, Bound County (2) Ganta, Nimba County
a.k.a.: KAMARA, Mamadee
Passport Details: (1) No. D/001548-99 [Liberian Diplomatic] (2) No. 0058070 (valid 10 January 2000 to 9 January 2005) [Liberian Ordinary] (3) No. 001546 (valid 1 August 1999 to 30 August 2001) [Liberian Diplomatic] (4) No. D/000953-98 [Liberian Diplomatic]
Other Information: Former Chief of Presidential Protocol. Chairman of Mohammad Group of companies

3. COOPER, Randolph
DOB: 28 October 1950
a.k.a.: COOPER, Randolf
Other Information: Former Managing Director of Robertsfield International Airport

4. DUNBAR, Jenkins
DOB: (1) 10 January 1947 (2) 10 June 1947
Other Information: Former Minister of Lands, Mines, Energy

5. GIBSON, Myrtle
DOB: 3 November 1952
Other Information: Former Senator, Advisor to former Liberian President Charles Taylor

6. GOODRIDGE, Reginald, B
DOB: 11 November 1952
a.k.a.: GOODRICH, Reginald, B
Other Information: Reginald B Goodridge/Goodrich Senior. Former Minister for Culture, Information, Tourism

7. JOBE, Baba
DOB: 1959
Nationality: Gambian
Other Information: Former Director of the Gambia New Millenium Air Company. Former Member of Parliament of Gambia. In prison in Gambia

8. KOUWENHOVEN, Gus
DOB: 15 September 1942
a.k.a.: (1) KOUENHAVEN, Gus (2) KOUENHOVEN, Gus (3) KOUVENHOVEN, Gus
Other Information: Owner of Hotel Africa. President of the Oriental Timber Company

9. MININ, Leonid, Yukhimovich
DOB: (1) 14 December 1947 (2) 18 October 1946
POB: Odessa, USSR (now Ukraine)
a.k.a.: (1) BLAVSTEIN (2) BLUVSHTEIN (3) BLYAFSHTEIN (4) BLYUFSHTEIN (5) BLYUVSHTEIN (6) BRESLAN, Wulf (7) KERLER, Vladamir, Abramovich
(8) KERLER, Vladimir, Abramovich (9) OSOLS, Igor (10) POPELA, Vladimir, Abramovich (11) POPELO, Vladimir, Abramavich (12) POPILOVESKI, Vladimir, Abramovich (13) POPILO-VESKI, Vladimir, Abramovich
Nationality: Israeli
Passport Details: (1) No. 5280007248D [Forged German] [Minin] (2) No. 18106739D [Forged German] [Minin] (3) No. 6019832 [valid 6 November 1994 to 5 November 1999] [Israeli] (4) No. 9001689 [valid 23 January 1997 to 22 January 2002] [Israeli]
(5) No. 90109052 [issued on 26 November 1997] [Israeli] (6) No. KI0861177 [Russian] (7) No. 65118 [Bolivian] (8) Greek passport – no details
Other Information: Owner of Exotic Tropical Timber Enterprises. UN list includes additional DOB of 10 July

10. MINOR, Grace, Beatrice
DOB: 31 May 1942
Other Information: Key advisor to former President Charles Taylor

11. RUPRAH, Sanjivan
DOB: 9 August 1966
a.k.a.: NASR, Samir, M
Passport Details: (1) No. D-001829-00 (2) No. D-002081-00
Other Information: Businessman. Former Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Maritime Affairs

12. SALAMIE, Mohamed, Ahmad
DOB: (1) 22 September 1961 (2) 18 October 1963
POB: (1) Abengourou, Ivory Coast (2) Ganta, Nimba County
a.k.a.: (1) AL JAWAD, Ameri (2) AL AMERI, Jawad (3) SALAMEI, Mohamed, Ahmad (4) SALAMI, Moustapha
(5) SALAMI, Moustapha, A Nationality: Lebanese
Passport Details: (1) No. 1622263 (valid 24 April 2001 to 23 April 2006) [Lebanese] (2) No. 004296/00409/00 (valid 21 August 2002 to 23 August 2007) [Togolese Diplomatic] (3) No. 000275 (valid 11 January 1998 to 10 January 2000) [Liberian Diplomatic] (4) No. 002414 (valid 20 June 2001 to 19 June 2003) [Liberian Diplomatic] (5) Ivorian passport – No details (6) No. D/001217 [Liberian Diplomatic]
Other Information: Owner of Mohamed and Company Logging Company

13. SHAW, Emmanuel
DOB: (1) 29 July 1956 (1) 26 July 1946 (2) 26 July 1956
Other Information: Emmanuel Shaw II. Director of Lonestar Airways. Associated with Lone Star Communications Cooperation

14. SNOWE, Edwin, M
Nationality: Liberian
Passport Details: No. OR/0056672-01
Other Information: Edwin M Snowe Jr. Managing Director of the Liberian Petroleum and Refining Corporation (LPRC)

15. TAYLOR, Agnes, Reeves
DOB: 27 September 1965
a.k.a.: REEVES-TAYLOR, Agnes
Nationality: Liberian
Other Information: Former wife of former President Charles Taylor. Former Permanent representative of Liberia to the International Maritime Organisation. Former senior member of the Liberian Government

16. TAYLOR, Charles, Ghankay
DOB: (1) 1 September 1947 (2) 28 January 1948
a.k.a.: TAYLOR, Charles, MacArthur
Other Information: Former pPresident of Liberia

17. TAYLOR, Jewell, Howard
DOB: 17 January 1963
a.k.a.: HOWARD TAYLOR, Jewell, Howard
Passport Details: No. D/003835-04 (valid 4 June 2004 to 3 June 2006) [Liberian Diplomatic]
Other Information: Wife of former President Charles Taylor. UN list has alternative spelling of Jewel.

18. TAYLOR, Tupee, Enid
DOB: (1) 17 December 1962 (2) 17 December 1960
Passport Details: No. D/002216 [Liberian Diplomatic]
Other Information: Former wife of former President Charles Taylor

19. UREY, Benoni
DOB: 22 June 1957
Passport Details: (1) No. D-00148399 [Liberian Diplomatic] (2) No. D/002356 [Commissioner of Maritime]
Other Information: Former ~~Ex-~~Commissioner of Maritime Affairs of Liberia

20. YEATEON, Benjamin, D
DOB: (1) 28 February 1969 (2) 29 February 1969
POB: Tiaplay, Nimba County
a.k.a.: YEATON, Benjamin, D
Passport Details: No. D00123299 [Liberian Diplomatic] (valid 10 February 1999 to 9 February 2001)
Other Information: Former head of the Special Security Unit in Liberia. Former Director, Special Security Services.

Notes to Editors
On 12 March 2004, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1532 (2004).

On 29 April 2004, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Regulation (EC) No 872/2004, which, inter alia, had the effect of freezing the funds and economic resources of the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor and certain individuals associated with him. All such targeted persons were listed in Annex I of that Regulation. Regulation (EC) No 872/2004 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union and entered into force on 30 April 2004 (O.J. L162, p.32).

The list of targeted persons in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 872/2004 has subsequently been amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1149/2004 of 22 June 2004, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1478/2004 of 18 August 2004 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2004 of 8 September 2004.