Mogadishu, U.S. Department of the Treasury designated a network of Al-Shabaab financial facilitators who hold leadership roles within Al-Shabaab and act as key interlocutors between the group and local companies in Somalia.
KHALIF ADALE, ABDULLAHI JEERI,HASSAN AFGOOYE, ABDIKARIM HUSSEIN GAGAALE, ABDI SAMAD and ABDIRAHMAN NUREY have all been marked by the US Treasury department as weapons smugglers, finance collectors and extortioners of the Al-Shabab terrorist group.
Mohamed Hussein Salad (Salad), Ahmed Hasan Ali Sulaiman Mataan (Mataan), and Mohamed Ali Badaas (Badaas) are part of an Al-Shabaab smuggling and weapons trafficking network in Yemen. The network members have served as representatives for terrorists, criminals, and weapons dealers from Somalia, some of whom were middlemen.
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the individuals named above, and of any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them, individually, or with other blocked persons, that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons must be blocked and reported to OFAC.
Source: Somali National News Agency