Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 3
By Azad Hasanli – Trend:
Financial Monitoring Service of Azerbaijan’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority has added four persons to the list of those subject to international sanctions for their support of terrorism, said a report of the service posted on its website.
Nayif Salih Salim al-Qaysi, senior official and a financial supporter of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militant Islamist group, Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri and Iyad Nazmi Salih Khalil, who are the leaders of the Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant radical Islamist group, as well as Ghalib Abdullah al-Zaidi, the leader of the AQAP, have been added to the list.
This is the 5th change made to the list in 2017. The list is updated in accordance with the UN Security Council’s decisions and the information received from regional organizations.
According to an order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan, the international list is approved and updated by the Financial Monitoring Service based on the information received from the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The service also makes the approved list available for the monitoring and supervisory bodies. In the case of detection of properties and money belonging to legal entities and individuals specified in the list, the monitoring and supervisory bodies must inform the Financial Monitoring Service of Azerbaijan without performing any operations with these properties and funds.
The Financial Monitoring Service of Azerbaijan was established Feb. 23, 2009.
The monitoring of the service covers activities of credit, insurance and reinsurance organizations, professional participants of the securities market, pawn shops, investment funds, transactions with precious metals and stones, as well as purchase of products from them.
The monitoring of the service also covers activities of non-governmental and religious organizations, organizers of lotteries, people providing services of the real estate sales, as well as lawyers, accountants, real estate transactions, client money, securities and property, client bank and deposit accounts.