List of names for suspicious account reporting - US Executive Order and Government Gazette

Our Ref:

B10/1C

20 January 2004

The Chief Executive
All Authorized Institutions

Dear Sir / Madam,

List of names for suspicious account reporting - US Executive Order and Government Gazette

Further to my letter of 15 December 2003, I am writing to inform you that the US Government has recently added two individuals to the list issued under the US Executive Order 13224. Also, new aliases have been added to five existing designated entities, namely, Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, BA Taqwa for Commerce and Real Estate Company Limited, Lashkar e-Tayyiba, Jaishe e-Mohammed and PKK. The relevant information can be found in the website of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury (http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/eotffc/ofac/sanctions/terrorism.html) under the headings of "Name of individual designated on 22 December 2003", "Name of individual designated on 16 January 2004" and "Details of Specially Designated Global Terrorist [SDGT] Entities".

Meanwhile, an updated list specifying terrorists and terrorist associates designated by the United Nations Security Council Committee was separately published under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance and the United Nations Sanctions (Afghanistan) Regulation in the Gazette on 16 January 2004 under G.N. 424 and 425 respectively. Compared with the list attached to my previous letter, the names of two individuals associated with the Al-Qaida have been added under items 35 and 63 of Part C of the new list. In addition, new aliases have been added in respect of two existing designated entities (Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and BA Taqwa for Commerce and Real Estate Company Limited) under items 18 and 30 of Part D respectively.

The new list is available on the Government's website at (http://www.info.gov.hk/pd/content/index.htm). A copy of the list in MS Word format is attached to facilitate update of your electronic database.

You are reminded to check the designated names against your records and report any transactions or relationships you have or have had with the named individuals or entities to the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit and the HKMA. You are also reminded to browse the above websites regularly for the latest information.

Yours faithfully,

William A. Ryback
Deputy Chief Executive

encl.

Attachment (MS Word, 444KB)