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RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHIN #0024 0080534
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 080534Z JAN 09
FM AIT TAIPEI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0667
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHDC
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 0101

UNCLAS AIT TAIPEI 000024 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR INS, NEA/IR, EEB/ESC/TFS/LINDA S. RECHT, NEA/I/JKONDOS, 
AND S/CT/TDROZDENKO 
TREASURY FOR TFFC LADAN ARCHIN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON PK TW
SUBJECT:  TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF FOUR MEMBERS OF 
LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA 
 
REF: 08 STATE 131885 
 
¶1.  Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) 
issued a formal instruction on January 5, 2009, providing all 
banking institutions with information on four members of the 
terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba designated on December 10, 2008 by 
the UN Security Council's Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee 
(1267 Committee) for targeted sanctions.  These four individuals are 
Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, and 
Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq. 
 
¶2.  In the instruction, the FSC directs Taiwan banking institutions 
to treat transactions with the designated individuals and their 
beneficiaries as suspected money laundering transactions, and 
instantly report these transactions to the Ministry of Justice 
Investigation Bureau for further investigation and action. 
 
¶3.  The FSC also asked the following industry associations to 
request their members to comply with the January 5, 2009 
instruction: 
 
--Credit Cooperation Association 
--Bills Finance Association 
--Securities Firms Association 
--Securities Investment Trust and Consultant Association 
--Futures Commissioners Association 
--Life Insurance Association 
--Non-life Insurance Association 
--all jewelry associations 
--Credit Card Firms Association 
--Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation 
--four securities finance companies 
--Joint Credit Information Center 
 
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