The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said yesterday it had established a network of six people connected to the Nigeria-based terrorist group, Boko Haram.
According to a statement on the OFAC website, the six were found guilty of establishing a Boko Haram cell in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to raise funds and provide material assistance to Boko Haram rebels in Nigeria.
OFAC’s actions followed the arrest, prosecution and appointment in the UAE in September 2021, demonstrating the commitment of the Emirate government to use legal action and targeted financial sanctions to disrupt the flow of funds to this network. “With this action, the United States joined the UAE in targeting a terrorist funding network of mutual concern,” said Deputy Minister of Finance Brian Nelson.
“The treasury continues to target financial facilitators from terrorist activities throughout the world.
We welcome multilateral action on the Boko Haram network to ensure that it cannot move funds further through the international financial system OFAC appointed Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad based on Executive Order (EO) 13224, as amended, targeting terrorists, leaders and officials of terrorist groups, and those who provide support to terrorists or acts of terrorism.
The US Department of State established Boko Haram as a Designated Global Foreign and Terrorist Organization on November 14, 2013. In the Boko Haram network in the UAE, the statement said, “The UAE Federal Court of Appeals in Abu Dhabi sentenced Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad for transferring $ 782,000. from Dubai to Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Salihu Yusuf Adamu and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad were sentenced to life imprisonment for violating UAE anti-terrorism laws; Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, and Ibrahim Ali Alhassan was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by deportation. The determination today will prevent these people’s funds from being used further to support terrorism.
The statement said the implications of sanctions were that “As a result of today’s (yesterday) actions, all property and interests of the individuals mentioned above, and every entity owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them. , individually, or with other people who are blocked, who are in the United States or in US ownership or control, must be blocked and reported to OFAC.
Unless permitted by a general or special license issued by OFAC or excluded, OFAC regulations generally prohibit all transactions by US people or in the United States (including transit transactions in the United States) involving any property or interests in property designated or blocked by people.
“Furthermore, engaging in certain transactions with individuals appointed today carries the risk of secondary sanctions in accordance with E.O. 13224, as amended. Based on this authority, OFAC may prohibit or impose strict conditions on opening or maintaining in the United States from correspondent accounts or debt accounts through foreign financial institutions that intentionally carry out or facilitate significant transactions on behalf of the Party Specifically Designated.
World Terrorist. “The strength and integrity of OFAC sanctions does not only originate from its ability to appoint and add people to the SDN Register and SDN Register, but also from his willingness to expel people from the SDN Register in accordance with the law. The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish but to bring positive changes in behavior. ”
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