TERRORISM FINANCE: AMENDED DESIGNATION OF

S E C R E T VIENNA 003978 SIPDIS STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (LLAMBERT),S/CT (TKUSHNER),IO/PSC (BFITZGERALD) AND EUR/AGS TREASURY FOR DGLASER AND OFAC (RWERNER) E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/30/2015 TAGS: EFIN ETTC KTFN PK PREL PTER AU SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: AMENDED DESIGNATION OF LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA REF: STATE 229918 Classified By: ECONOMIC-POLITICAL COUNSELOR GREGORY E. PHILLIPS REASONS: 1.4 (B) AND (D) ¶1. (S) On December 23, Embassy Vienna delivered the prenotification regarding the amended designation of Lashkar e-Tayyiba to include Jamaat-ul-Dawa (and its variants) on the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee list. We spoke to Finance Ministry official Angelika Schloegel, money laundering and terrorism financing coordinator in the Federal Ministry of Finance. On December 28, Schloegel transmitted assurances from Alfred Lejsek, Head of MoF's Financial Markets Directorate, that the MoF would invoke standard procedures to identify any such accounts. Banks will report any findings to Austria's Financial Investigation Unit, which is responsible for freezing the accounts. ¶2. (S) Post also notified Johann Froehlich, A/S-equivalent in the Foreign Ministry's International Security Cooperation Bureau, which has the lead on EU Clearinghouse issues. KILNER