Sa’d bin Sa’d Muhammad Shariyan Al Ka’bi (also: Sa'd Sa'd Muhammad Shiryan al-Ka'bi and Sa'd al-Sharyan al-Ka'bi) is a known Qatari financier and facilitator of financial services that support the Qatari branch of Al-Qaeda, as well as Al-Nusra Front (ANF) for the People of the Levant (ANF), an al-Qaeda Syria based affiliate, which is listed by the United States as a terrorist group.[1]

According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Al Ka’abi was designated to the list because he has been involved in complex schemes to continue the flow of funds that aid violent terrorist activities networks in Syria, Pakistan, and Sudan since at least 2012.[2]

In early 2014, al- Ka’abi arranged donation campaigns in Qatar, as requested of him by an ANF associate. He helped raise significant funds, by which the money raised was used for the purchase of arms and food for al-Nusra.[3]

He was also involved in hostage exchange incidents with ANF. He was officially requested by the organization to act as an intermediary in collecting and facilitating a ransom payment in exchange for the release of a hostage held by ANF.[3]

Al-Ka’bi was involved in the Madad Ahl al-Sham campaign, which posed as a charity organization by which supporters of Al-Nusra Front could provide funding.[4][5][6]

He has also been linked to and worked closely with controversial individuals including Hamid Hamad Hamid al-'Ali, a Kuwaiti ANF fundraiser, in 2013 when he received funding from him to support ANF and Abd al-Latif al-Kawari, who he worked with on the Mahid Ahl Sham campaign.[4][7][8][9]

As of August 2015, he has been designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist[10] and been placed on the United States Treasury sanctions list for designated financiers of terrorism for his illicit financial activities in an effort to target the funding networks of terrorist organizations.[11] He has since been placed on numerous sanctions lists for the same reasons including those of the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Australia, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and others.[12][13][14][15][16]

These sanctions allow to US Department of Treasury to confiscate any of his assets under American jurisdiction, as well as forbid any commercial interaction between him and any United States citizens.[17] Under the UN's Security Council's Al-Qaida Sanctions he is under similar restrictions with having his assets frozen and a travel ban and arms embargo placed on him.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "Sa'd bin Sa'd Muhammad Shariyan al-Ka'bi". United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Organs. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  2. ↑ Shabad, Rebecca (2015-08-05). "US slaps sanctions on al Qaeda supporters". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  3. 1 2 "Treasury Designates Financial Supporters of Al-Qaida and Al-Nusrah Front". U.S. Department of the Treasury. 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  4. 1 2 "Getting By With A Little Help From Our Friends". Consortium Against Terror Financing. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  5. ↑ Kovessy, Peter (2015-06-20). "Report: Qatar boosting anti-terrorism efforts amid new threats". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  6. ↑ Warrick, Joby. "Syrian conflict said to fuel sectarian tensions in Persian Gulf". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  7. ↑ "Security Council ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Amends 80 Entries on Its Sanctions List". United Nations. 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  8. ↑ Weinberg, David. "Equipo Nizkor - Analysis: Qatar still negligent on terror finance". Equipo Nizkor. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  9. ↑ Weinberg, David ANdrew (2015-08-19). "Analysis: Qatar still negligent on terror finance". The Long War Journal. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  10. ↑ "US sanctions financiers of Syrian rebels with links in Pakistan". 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  11. ↑ Khan, Taimur (5 August 2015). "US names two Qatari nationals as financiers of terrorism". The National. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  12. ↑ "Notice for the attention of Abd Al-Aziz Aday Zimin Al-Fadhil, Abd Al-Latif Bin Abdallah Salih Muhammad Alkawari, Hamad Awad Dahi Sarhan Al-Shammari and Sa'd Bin Sa'd Muhammad Shariyan Al-Ka'bi which were added to the list referred to in Articles 2, 3 and 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al-Qaeda network, by virtue of Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1740". EUR-Lex. 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  13. ↑ "Sanctions regimes". Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  14. ↑ "Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan" (PDF). CDC Pakistan. 2015-10-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-07-24. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  15. ↑ "Financial sanctions, ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida organisations". www.gov.uk. 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  16. ↑ "United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Ordinance (Chapter 575)" (PDF). GLD.gv.hk. 2016-08-20. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-19.
  17. ↑ "U.S. Imposes Sanctions on 2 Qataris for Qaeda Ties". The New York Times. 2015-08-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  18. ↑ "Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Adds Names of Four Individuals to Its Sanctions List". United Nations. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
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