TERRORISM FINANCE: FADHLI DESIGNATION - DEMARCHE

UNCLAS VIENNA 000462

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS/DNELSON, S/CT/TKUSHNER, EUR/AGS
STATE FOR NEA/ARPI/TWILLIAMS, NEA/ELA/DBARON
STATE FOR NEA/I-ECON/KBRONSON, IO/PSC/JSCHWEITZER
STATE ALSO FOR 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: FADHLI DESIGNATION - DEMARCHE
DELIVERED

REF: STATE 26825

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1. (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted Muhsin
Fadhli designation (List 67) demarche on opening of
business February 16 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the
Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of
Finance (MOF). 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