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FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL ACT

FIL-80-2003
 October 21, 2003
TO: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (also of interest to Compliance Officer)
SUBJECT: Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons
Summary: The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has added three entries as Specially Designated Global Terrorists to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.

On October 14, 2003, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added three new Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entries to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDNs). The new entries are listed below.

  • AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL (a.k.a. AKHTARABAD MEDICAL CAMP; a.k.a. AL-AKHTAR MEDICAL CENTRE), ST-1/A, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Block 2, Karachi 75300, Pakistan; Bahawalpur, Pakistan; Bawalnagar, Pakistan; Gilgit, Pakistan; Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block 12, Karachi, Pakistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; Mirpur Khas, Pakistan; Spin Boldak, Afghanistan; Tando-Jan-Muhammad, Pakistan; and all other offices worldwide, SDGT
  • AL-AKHTAR MEDICAL CENTRE (a.k.a. AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL), Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block 12, Karachi, Pakistan, SDGT
  • AKHTARABAD MEDICAL CAMP (a.k.a. AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL), Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, SDGT
In addition, numerous changes have been made to the "Foreign Terrorist Organization, Specially Designated Global Terrorist" entries. A listing of the recent changes is attached. For complete details on changes to the SDN list, please see the section entitled "SDN Changes" on the "SDN and Blocked Persons" page of OFAC's Web site at https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-assets-control-sanctions-programs-and-information. OFAC has asked that we distribute the information to all FDIC-supervised institutions so records can be checked for accounts that are required to be blocked.

Please distribute this information to the appropriate personnel in your institution. For further information about Executive Orders, the list of blocked accounts or the procedures to block accounts, please call OFAC's Compliance Programs Division at 1-800-540-6322.

For your reference, FDIC Financial Institution Letters may be accessed from the FDIC's Web site at www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2003/index.html. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Financial Institution Letters through e-mail, please visit http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/announcements/index.html.


  Michael J. Zamorski
  Director

Attachment (May be accessed at https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-assets-control-sanctions-programs-and-informationsdn/t11sdnew.pdf.) 520k (PDF Help)

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