TERRORIST FINANCE: ADDITIONAL HARAMAIN

S E C R E T BRASILIA 002247 SIPDIS STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (EGOFF) STATE FOR S/CT (TKUSHNER) STATE FOR NEW/ARP (PHEFFERMAN) STATE FOR IO/PHO (APEREZ) NSC FOR MRUPPERT TREASURY FOR JZARATE TREASURY FOR OFAC (RNEWCOMB) E.O. 12958: DNG: CO 09/02/2015 TAGS: ETTC EFIN PTER PREL CVIS BR SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: ADDITIONAL HARAMAIN DESIGNATIONS - BRAZIL NOTIFIED REF: STATE 190057 Classified By: Deputy Economic Counselor J. Andrew Plowman, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). (S) Per reftel, post notifed on September 3 Jaime Freitas, the Deputy to the President of COAF, Brazil's financial intelligence unit, and Marcos Pinta Gama, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office for the Combat of Illicit Transnational Activities, of the USG intention to nominate two Al-Haramain branches, along with Ashland Al-Haramain branch director Suliman Al-Buthe, to the UNSCR 1267 terror finance list. Freitas undertook to check COAF's databases for assets or transactions involving those entities as well as to circulate the list to other relevant GoB agencies, including the Central Bank and the intelligence agency (ABIN),for them to conduct similar searches. Freitas again confirmed that all previous asset searches involving other Al-Haramain branches had been negative. DANILOVICH