News Release
Financial Sanctions:
Terrorist Financing
13 December 2006
This news release is issued in respect of the financial measures taken against terrorism.
The Bank of England, as agent for Her Majesty's Treasury, has today issued a Notice to publicise generally a direction given by Her Majesty's Treasury that the individual named below is a "designated person" for the purposes of the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006. This means that:
- any funds (meaning financial assets and benefits of every kind) or economic resources belonging to, owned or held by the individual must be frozen; and
- no funds, economic resources or financial services are to be made available, directly or indirectly, to the individual;
except under the authority of a licence.
Financial institutions and other persons are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold any funds or economic resources 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
1. AL GHABRA, Mohammed
DOB: 01/06/1980
POB: Damascus, Syria
Address: East London, United Kingdom
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).
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.
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