US embassy cable - 05VIENNA1222

UNCLAS VIENNA 001222 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS/LLAMBERT, S/CT/TKUSHNER, EUR/AGS 
STATE FOR IO/PSC/BFITZGERALD, 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: LET SUBMISSION - DEMARCHE 
DELIVERED 
 
REFS:  A) STATE 67018  B) VIENNA 981 
 
THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE 
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1. (SBU) Per ref A instructions, Post submitted LET 
submission to 1267 Committee 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) Post alerted recipients, who had been 
prenotified (ref B), about the additional a.k.a.'s on the 
UN listing.  Even though this is just a submission to the 
UN 1267 Sanctions Committee, Ertl told us that the MOF 
applied the usual procedure with LET, 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