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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury designated this Wednesday as "specially designated global terrorists" members of a network - three people and two entities - based in Brazil for supporting the terrorist group al Qaeda and its companies.
"The activities of this Brazil-based network demonstrate that al Qaeda remains a pervasive global terrorist threat, and today's designations will help deny the group's access to the formal financial system," Treasury Under Secretary Brian E said Wednesday. Nelson in a statement.
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For his part, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said that the US "is taking steps to stop funding this terrorist group" and that the continued activities of this Brazil-based network demonstrate that al Qaeda continues to be a global terrorist threat.
Specifically, the US is appointing Haytham Ahmad Shukri Ahmad Al-Maghrabi, who arrived in Brazil in 2015 and is one of the initial members of an al Qaeda support network in the Latin American country.
According to the Treasury Department, Al-Maghrabi had business deals, including buying foreign currency, and was frequently in contact with another person affiliated with al Qaeda in Brazil.
Al-Maghrabi is accused of "having materially aided, sponsored or provided financial, material or technological support, or goods or services for or in support of al Qaeda."
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Other appointees are Mohamed Sherif Mohamed Awadd, who received wire transfers from other associates of the terrorist group and played an important role in a group affiliated with al Qaeda;
Ahmad Al-Khatib, who lives in Brazil and the Awadd and Al-Khatib companies.
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Awadd and Al-Khati are accused of "having materially assisted, sponsored or provided financial, material or technological support, or goods or services for or in support of Mohamed Ahmed Elsayed Ahmed Ibrahim, who was designated on September 10, 2019 for having acted for or on behalf of al Qaeda. "
As a result of the measures announced by the Department of the Treasury "all property and interests in property of the persons and entities mentioned above, and of any entity that is owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more of them, individually , or with other blocked persons, who are in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons, must be blocked and reported to OFAC ”.
According to the organization, al Qaeda "generates almost all its income outside the United States", so the US government is using financial tools to limit the financing flows of the terrorist group worldwide.
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