US embassy cable - 05VIENNA1221

UNCLAS VIENNA 001221 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS/MSIDDIQUI, S/CT/TKUSHNER, EUR/AGS 
STATE FOR NEA/ARPI/TWILLIAMS, NEA/ELA/DBARON 
STATE FOR NEA/I-ECON/KBRONSON, IO/PSC/JSCHWEITZER 
STATE ALSO FOR NSC/JKEMERSON 
TREASURY FOR JZARATE AND OFAC/RWERNER 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTFN, ETTC, EFIN, PTER, KSEP, CVIS, KVPR, AU, EUN 
SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-HIYARI DESIGNATION - 
DEMARCHE DELIVERED 
 
REF:  STATE 66414 
 
THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE 
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1. (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted Bilal AL- 
HIYARI designation (List 69) demarche on April 13 to 
Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate 
in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF), and Birgit 
Ertl, money laundering and terrorism financing 
coordinator in Lejsek's office.  Post also sent a copy to 
the Foreign Ministry's International Security Cooperation 
Office. 
 
2. (SBU) The MOF applied the usual procedure with these 
names, which is to circulate the information on the same 
day to all banks and financial institutions in Austria 
with a request to search for accounts.  Banks will report 
any findings to Austria's Financial Investigation Unit, 
which is responsible for freezing the accounts. 
 
BROWN