Counter-Terrorist Asset Freezing Regime
Treasury

Mark Hoban (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Fareham, Conservative)

Under the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (“TAFA 2010”), the Treasury is required to report quarterly to Parliament on its operation of the UK’s asset-freezing regime mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1373.

This is the sixth report under the Act and it covers the period from 1 April to 30 June 2012. This report also covers the UK implementation of the UN al-Qaeda asset-freezing regime and the operation of the EU asset-freezing regime in the UK under the EU Regulation (EC) 2580/2001 which implements UNSCR 1373 against external terrorist threats to the EU. Under the latter regime, the EU has responsibility for designations and the Treasury has responsibility for licensing and compliance with the regime in the UK under part 1 of TAFA 2010.

Annexes one and two to this statement provide a breakdown by name of all those designated by the UK and the EU in pursuance of UN Security Council Resolution 1373.

The following table sets out the key asset-freezing activity in the UK during the quarter ended 30 June 2012:

	TAFA 2010	EU Reg (EC) 2580/2001	Al-Qaeda Regime UNSCR 1989
Assets frozen (as at 30/06/2012)	£33,000	£11,000	£71,000⁽¹⁾
Number of accounts frozen in UK (at 30/06/12)	68	10	32
New accounts frozen	0	0	0
Accounts unfrozen	0	0	6
Number of designations (at 30/06/12)	40	37	325
(i) new designations (during Q2 2012)	0	0	1
(ii) Delistings	0	0	6
(iii) individuals in custody in UK	14	0	3
(iv) individuals in UK, not in detention	5	0	5
(v) individuals overseas	13	12	257
(vi) groups	8 (0 in UK)	26 (1 in UK)	69 (2 in UK)
Individuals by nationality (i) UK Nationals⁽²⁾ (ii) Non UK Nationals	15 17	n/a	n/a
Renewal of designation	0	n/a	n/a
General Licences (i) Issued in Q2 (ii) Amended (iii) Revoked		(i) 0 (ii) 0 (iii) 0
Specific Licences:
(i) Issued in Q2 (ii) Revoked	(i) 5 (ii) 0	(i) 0 (ii) 0	1 0
⁽¹⁾This figure reflects the most up-to-date account balances available and includes approximately $64,000 of suspected terrorist funds frozen in the UK. This has been converted using exchange rates as of 02/07/12. ⁽²⁾Based on information held by the Treasury, some of these individuals hold dual nationality.

There are no significant areas of activity to report on this quarter.

Legal Challenges

UKSC 2 and the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2009.

Proceedings

In the quarter to 30 June 2012, no proceedings were commenced involving the Treasury in respect of breaches of the prohibitions of the Act or the al-Qaeda (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2011.

1 - Designated persons under TAFA 2010 by name ⁽³⁾

Individuals

1.	Hamed ABDOLLAHI
2.	Bllal Talal ABDULLAH
3.	Imad Khalil AL-ALAMI
4.	Abdula Ahmed ALI
5.	Abdelkarim Hussein AL-NASSER
6.	Ibrahim Salih AL-YACOUB
7.	Manssor ARBABSIAR
8.	Usama HAMDAN
9.	Nabeel HUSSAIN
10.	Tanvir HUSSAIN

11.	Zahoor IQBAL
12.	Umar ISLAM
13.	Hasan IZZ-AL-DIN
14.	Parviz KHAN
15.	Waheed Arafat KHAN
16.	Osman Adam KHATIB
17.	Musa Abu MARZOUK
18.	Gulam MASTAFA
19.	Khalid MISHAAL
20.	Khalid Shaikh MOHAMMED
21.	Ramzi MOHAMMED
22.	Sultan MUHAMMAD
23.	Yassin OMAR
24.	Hussein OSMAN
25.	Zana Abdul RAHIM
26.	Muktar Mohammed SAID
27.	Assad SARWAR
28.	Ibrahim SAVANT
29.	Abdul Reza SHAHLAI
30.	Ali Gholam SHAKURI
31.	Qasem SOLEIMANI
32.	Waheed ZAMAN