TERRORIST FINANCE: POSSIBLE HIT IN BULGARIA ON

C O N F I D E N T I A L SOFIA 000058 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/13/2016 TAGS: EFIN ETTC KVPR PREL PTER CVIS KTFN BU SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: POSSIBLE HIT IN BULGARIA ON IBRAHIM MOHAMED KHALIL REF: 05 STATE 222496 Classified By: DCM JEFF LEVINE, FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D ¶1. (C) Dr. Vasil Kirov, Director of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA),called in Econ Officers on January 13 to discuss a possible hit on one of the eight names the USG sent the GOB in terrorist finance list 74 on December 9, ¶2005. ¶2. (C) Bulgarian bank Bulbank informed the FIA that they had an account in the name of Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil, Yemeni citizen, dob: January 25, 1972, Yemeni passport number 00811627, issued in Aden (date of issuance unknown.) The bank does not have a copy of the passport. The bank account was opened on November 18, 2003, and received transfers from abroad until February 11, 2004. No activity since that date. ¶3. (C) Khalil was registered as living in the Student Town section of Sofia, reserved for students and their immediate family and friends, in Block (house) number 16, room 209. ¶4. (C) Kirov will seek further information from the National Security Service, including any available information from the Universities on students registered here under that name in the past few years. Embassy requests Washington agencies provide any information they have about Khalil as quickly as possible in order to help confirm identity. BEYRLE