US embassy cable - 04BRASILIA2247

S E C R E T BRASILIA 002247 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS (EGOFF) 
STATE FOR S/CT (TKUSHNER) 
STATE FOR NEW/ARP (PHEFFERMAN) 
STATE FOR IO/PHO (APEREZ) 
NSC FOR MRUPPERT 
TREASURY FOR JZARATE 
TREASURY FOR OFAC (RNEWCOMB) 
 
E.O. 12958: DNG: CO 09/02/2015 
TAGS: ETTC, EFIN, PTER, PREL, CVIS, BR, Terrorist Finance 
SUBJECT: TERRORIST FINANCE: ADDITIONAL HARAMAIN 
DESIGNATIONS - BRAZIL NOTIFIED 
 
REF: STATE 190057 
 
Classified By: Deputy Economic Counselor J. Andrew Plowman, Reasons 1.4 
 (b) and (d). 
 
(S) Per reftel, post notifed on September 3 Jaime Freitas, 
the Deputy to the President of COAF, Brazil's financial 
intelligence unit, and Marcos Pinta Gama, Director of the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office for the Combat of Illicit 
Transnational Activities, of the USG intention to nominate 
two Al-Haramain branches, along with Ashland Al-Haramain 
branch director Suliman Al-Buthe, to the UNSCR 1267 terror 
finance list.  Freitas undertook to check COAF's databases 
for assets or transactions involving those entities as well 
as to circulate the list to other relevant GoB agencies, 
including the Central Bank and the intelligence agency 
(ABIN), for them to conduct similar searches.  Freitas again 
confirmed that all previous asset searches involving other 
Al-Haramain branches had been negative. 
 
DANILOVICH