IRAQI ASSETS: LISTING OF INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES

UNCLAS BRASILIA 001685 SIPDIS SENSITIVE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EFIN PREL IZ BR UNSC SUBJECT: IRAQI ASSETS: LISTING OF INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES SUBJECT TO UNSCR 1483 ASSET FREEZE AND TRANSFER REF: SECSTATE 146239 This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified, please protect accordingly. Post delivered on July 6 reftel points on Iraqi assets to Luiza Lopes da Silva, Acting Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) Office of International Illicit Activities, and to Bernardo Mota of COAF, Brazil's financial intelligence unit. Mota undertook to search COAF's own databases as well as to share the list with the Central Bank and intelligence agency (ABIN),for them to check for financial assets in the names of the persons and entities on the USG list. Lopes da Silva said the MRE would coordinate with its mission in New York a response to the USG request to support the listing of these persons and entities by the UN 1518 Sanctions Committee. DUDDY