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December 20, 2001
TO: COMPLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 69-01
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE No. 70-01
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 23-01
PRIMARY CONTACTS - MEMBER COMPLEX No. 95-01
TRANSFER AGENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 107-01
RE: OFAC FREEZES ASSETS OF MORE TERRORISTS AND TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added five new names (two entities
and three individuals) to its list of specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs). Their assets
must be blocked immediately.1
The new names added to the SDGTs list are:
Lashkar E-Tayyiba (a.k.a. Army of the Righteous; a.k.a. Lashkar E-Toiba; a.k.a. Lashkar-
I-Taiba), Pakistan
Mahmood, Sultan Bashir-Ud-Din (a.k.a. Mahmood, Sultan Bashiruddin; a.k.a.
Mehmood, Dr. Bashir Uddin; a.k.a. Mekmud, Sultan Baishiruddin), Street 13, Wazir
Akbar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan; alt. DOB 1937; alt. DOB 1938; alt. DOB 1939; alt. DOB
1940; alt. DOB 1941; alt. DOB 1942; alt. DOB 1943; alt. DOB 1944; alt. DOB 1945;
nationality Pakistani (individual)
Majeed, Abdul (a.k.a. Majeed, Chaudhry Abdul; a.k.a. Majid, Abdul); DOB 15 Apr 1939;
alt. DOB 1938; nationality Pakistani (individual)
Tufail, Mohammed (a.k.a. Tufail, S.M.; a.k.a. Tufail, Sheik Mohammed); nationality
Pakistani (individual)
1 OFAC regulations require US persons, including investment companies, to block all accounts and assets of persons
or entities named by OFAC. For an overview of OFAC regulations and a description of the various measures that
mutual fund organizations may wish to consider adopting to ensure compliance with those regulations, refer to the
Institute’s paper entitled “Foreign Assets Control Compliance for Mutual Funds.” This paper is available on the
Institute’s members’ website at http://members.ici.org. The members’ website is password-protected; staff at
Institute member firms may request access codes by filling out the enrollment form on the website.
2
Ummah Tameer E-Nau (UTN), Street 13, Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan;
Pakistan
OFAC also has asked all financial institutions to check the specially designated nationals
(SDNs) and SDGTs list for descriptor information on OFAC targets before calling the OFAC
compliance hotline. A quick check of the data listed in an entry may eliminate the need for
making the phone call. OFAC has asked that financial institutions pay particular attention to
the way names are listed, birth dates, places of birth, and locations.
In addition, OFAC has reminded financial institutions that they must file blocking
reports within 10 days of blocking any item or account. Each report should be clearly labeled
“Blocking Report.”
The OFAC guidelines summarizing its terrorism sanctions regulations will be revised
and republished to reflect this addition, and are available on the OFAC web site,
www.treas.gov/ofac.
If you have questions about OFAC compliance please contact Frances Stadler (phone
202-326-5822; e-mail frances@ici.org) or me (phone 202-371-5430; e-mail rcg@ici.org), or contact
OFAC Compliance directly at 800-540-6322.
Robert C. Grohowski
Associate Counsel