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 THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ¶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