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December 3, 2002
TO: COMPLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 109-02
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE No. 84-02
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 59-02
MONEY LAUNDERING RULES WORKING GROUP No. 71-02
PRIMARY CONTACTS - MEMBER COMPLEX No. 97-02
TRANSFER AGENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 105-02
RE: OFAC UPDATE -- KURDISTAN WORKERS’ PARTY
In a notice released this afternoon, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)1 has
added three additional “a.k.a.”s to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party designation as a foreign
terrorist organization (FTO) and a specially designated global terrorist (SDGT), resulting in the
following primary entry:
KURDISTAN WORKERS’ PARTY (a.k.a. FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
CONGRESS OF KURDISTAN; a.k.a. HALU MESRU SAVUNMA KUVVETI
[HSK]; a.k.a. KADEK; a.k.a. KURDISTAN FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
CONGRESS; a.k.a. PARTIYA KARKERAN KURDISTAN; a.k.a. PKK; a.k.a. THE
PEOPLE’S DEFENSE FORCE) [FTO][SDGT]
The OFAC guidelines summarizing its terrorism sanctions regulations have been revised
and republished to reflect these additions, and are available on the OFAC web site,
www.treas.gov/ofac.
Robert C. Grohowski
Associate Counsel
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.