OFAC targets ‘financial facilitators’ of Pakistan-based terror group

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (‘OFAC’) has designated two individuals it considers ‘financial facilitators’ of Lashkar-e Tayyiba (‘LeT’), a terrorist group based in Pakistan.

Hameed ul Hassan and Abdul Jabbar have been designated Specially Designated Global Terrorists (‘SDGTs’) under Executive Order 13224. LeT has been designated as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organisation’ and a SDGT by the US Department of State since December 2001 and sanctioned by the UN Security Council since May 2005.

Hassan and Jabbar are subject to asset freezes and travel bans, and US persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.

For OFAC’s identifying information see:
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20180731.aspx