News Release
Financial Sanctions: Al-Qa'ida and Taliban
23 February 2006
This news release is issued in respect of the financial measures taken against Al-Qa’ida and the Taliban.
The Bank of England, as agent for Her Majesty’s Treasury, issues this news release to advise that on 22 February 2006 the UN Sanctions Committee approved an amendment to an existing entry on the UN Consolidated List maintained under Resolution 1390 (2002). The individual whose identifying information has been amended continues to fall within the UK financial sanctions regime under the Al-Qa’ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/111, as amended by S.I. 2002/251).
Financial institutions and other persons are required to check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold any funds, other financial assets, economic benefits and economic resources for the individual named below. If so, they should freeze the accounts or other funds and report their findings to the Bank of England.
Individual
(Additional information is shown in italics. Deleted information is shown in strikethrough)
BENHAMMEDI, Mohammed
DOB: 22/09/1966
POB: Libya
a.k.a: (1) ABU AL QASSAM
(2) ABU HAJIR
(3) AL LIBI, Abu Hajir
(4) BEN HAMMEDI
(5) BEN HAMMEDI, Mohamed
(6) BIN HAMMIDI, Muhammad, Muhammad
(7) HANNADI, Mohamed
(8) PANHAMMEDI
Nationality: British Libyan
Address: Midlands, United Kingdom.
The Bank’s news release dated 8 February 2006 advised that “BENHAMMEDI, Mohammed” had been added to the UN Consolidated List. 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.
