DAKAR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO)

C O N F I D E N T I A L DAKAR 002876 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR EB/ESC/TFS, S/CT (PATTY HILL),INL/C/CP (STEVEN PETERSON),IO/PSC (JOHN SANDAGE),AF/W, AND AF/EPS. E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2016 TAGS: EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PETER SG SUBJECT: DAKAR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) REF: A. A. STATE 18096 ¶B. B. DAKAR 2789 Classified By: ACTING DCM BETH A. PAYNE 1.4 (B) (D) ¶1. (C) The following are responses to reftel information request. (a) Post's Senior Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO): Robert P. Jackson Deputy Chief of Mission Tel: (221) 823-4296 ext. 2410 Email: (Unclass system) jacksonrp@state.gov Email: (Class system) jacksorp@state.sgov.gov (b) Post's Deputy TFCO: Wallace R. Bain Economic Counselor Tel: (221) 823-4296 ext. 2227 Email: (Unclass system) bainwr@state.gov Email: (Class system) bainwr@state.sgov.gov (c) A Dakar-based U.S. Department of Treasury regional advisor recently departed Post. The advisor's primary scope of work was to assist regional organizations (and to a lesser extent with national governments) on their laws and procedures related to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing efforts. It is Post's understanding that Treasury hope to establish a new advisor in Dakar, mainly to work with the ECOWAS-based Anti-Money Laundering Inter-governmental Group (GIABA). Should an agreement between Treasury and GIABA be reached, it could be useful for the Treasury advisor to discuss his or her mandate, priorities, and scope of work with TFCOs from ECOWAS countries. (d) Should Washington agencies wish to include Senegal in the chart noted in REF A, a review of Post's recent submission for the National Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II (Ref B) would prove useful. For the chart's first eight columns, Senegal is in compliance with all except it is not at this time an Egmont Member, and it has not, to our knowledge, issued a freeze order on terrorist-linked assets (nor located any within Senegal's finance sector as far as we know). For the final three columns: -- RARELY conducts thorough search of financial institutions for terrorist assets; -- OCCASIONALLY provides timely sharing of terror finance information; -- OCCASIONALLY engages in outreach to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement on issues related to terrorist financing. (U) Visit Embassy Dakar's classified website at http://www.state.sgov/gov/p/af/dakar/. JACOBS