TERRORISM FINANCE: LET SUBMISSION - DEMARCHE

UNCLAS VIENNA 001222 SIPDIS SENSITIVE STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS/LLAMBERT, S/CT/TKUSHNER, EUR/AGS STATE FOR IO/PSC/BFITZGERALD, NSC/JKEMERSON TREASURY FOR JZARATE AND OFAC/RWERNER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: LET SUBMISSION - DEMARCHE DELIVERED REFS: A) STATE 67018 B) VIENNA 981 THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ¶1. (SBU) Per ref A instructions, Post submitted LET submission to 1267 Committee on April 13 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Birgit Ertl, money laundering and terrorism financing coordinator in Lejsek's office. Post also sent a copy to the Foreign Ministry's International Security Cooperation Office. ¶2. (SBU) Post alerted recipients, who had been prenotified (ref B),about the additional a.k.a.'s on the UN listing. Even though this is just a submission to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee, Ertl told us that the MOF applied the usual procedure with LET, which is to circulate the information on the same day to all banks and financial institutions in Austria with a request to search for accounts. Banks will report any findings to Austria's Financial Investigation Unit, which is responsible for freezing the accounts. BROWN