TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL

UNCLAS VIENNA 003098

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (LLAMBERT),S/CT (TKUSHNER),
EUR/AGS, SA/RA (LLEE),IO/PSC (BFITZGERALD)
TREASURY FOR TFFC (DGLASER) AND OFAC (RWERNER)
STATE PASS NSC FOR THINNEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU UN
SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL

REF: STATE 169212

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1. (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted the
addition of Al-Akhtar Trust International Movement to the
UN 1267 Sanctions Committee list demarche on September 16
to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets
Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and
Birgit Ertl and Anelika Schloegel, money laundering and
terrorism financing coordinators in Lejsek's office.
Post also sent a copy to the Foreign Ministry's
International Security Cooperation Office.


2. (SBU) The MOF applied the usual procedure with these
names, 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