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AL-KAWTHAR MONEY EXCHANGE

UN reference
QDe.157
Sanctions regime
ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida (1267 Committee)
Type
Entity
Address
Al-Qaim, Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Aliases
Al Kawthar Co.; Al Kawthar Company; Al-Kawthar Hawala
Listed on
6 March 2018
Updated by the UN
30 October 2023

Other information (UN original text)

Money exchange business and owned by Umar Mahmud Irhayyim al-Kubaysi (QDi.412) as of mid-2016. Facilitated financial transactions on behalf of companies associated with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). Established in 2000 under License number 202, issued on 17 May 2000, and since withdrawn INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice:https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities

If your counterparty matches this record: suspend the transaction, freeze the related funds and assets without delay and report to the competent authorities.