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May 6, 2004
TO: COMPLIANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 47-04
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE No. 25-04
INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 19-04
MONEY LAUNDERING RULES WORKING GROUP No. 15-04
PRIMARY CONTACTS - MEMBER COMPLEX No. 41-04
TRANSFER AGENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE No. 41-04
RE: OFAC UPDATE
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a bulletin today adding three
entities to its list of specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs).1 Their assets must be blocked
immediately. As a result, the following entities have been added to the SDGT list:
AL FURQAN (a.k.a. ASSOCIATION FOR CITIZENS RIGHTS AND
RESISTANCE TO LIES; a.k.a. ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION,
CULTURAL, AND TO CREATE SOCIETY - SIRAT; a.k.a. ASSOCIATION
FOR EDUCATION, CULTURE AND BUILDING SOCIETY - SIRAT;
a.k.a. ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS FOR THE SUPPORT OF TRUTH
AND SUPPRESSION OF LIES; a.k.a. DZEM'IJJETUL FURQAN; a.k.a.
DZEMIJETUL FURKAN; a.k.a. DZEMILIJATI FURKAN; a.k.a. IN
SIRATEL; a.k.a. ISTIKAMET; a.k.a. SIRAT), Put Mladih Muslimana 30a,
71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; ul. Strossmajerova 72, Zenica,
Bosnia-Herzegovina; Muhameda Hadzijahica #42, Sarajevo, Bosnia-
Herzegovina [SDGT]
AL-HARAMAIN & AL MASJED AL-AQSA CHARITY
FOUNDATION: BOSNIA BRANCH (a.k.a. AL HARAMAIN AL
MASJED AL AQSA; a.k.a. AL HARAMAYN AL MASJID AL AQSA;
a.k.a. AL-HARAMAYN AND AL MASJID AL AQSA CHARITABLE
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
FOUNDATION), Hasiba Brankovica No. 2A, Sarajevo, Bosnia-
Herzegovina [SDGT]
TAIBAH INTERNATIONAL : BOSNIA BRANCH (a.k.a. AL TAIBAH,
INTL.; a.k.a. TAIBAH INTERNATIONAL AID AGENCY; a.k.a. TAIBAH
INTERNATIONAL AID ASSOCIATION; a.k.a. TAIBAH
INTERNATIONAL AIDE ASSOCIATION), Avde Smajlovic 6, Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina; No. 26 Tahbanksa Ulica, Sarajevo, Bosnia-
Herzegovina [SDGT]
All of OFAC’s SDN material has been updated accordingly, as has OFAC’s program
brochure on Terrorism.
Robert C. Grohowski
Associate Counsel