Specially Designated Global Terrorist
A Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) is a person or entity that has been designated as such by the
One of the first organisations to which Executive Order 13224 was applied was the Palestinian-American charity the
SDGTs are entities and individuals who the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) finds have committed or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism, or who OFAC finds provide support, services, or assistance to, or otherwise associate with, terrorists and terrorist organizations designated under OFAC Counter Terrorism Sanctions programs, as well as related persons, subsidiaries, front organizations, agents, or associates. They are designated under OFAC's programs.[2][4]
The designation SDGT is one of several types of designations of persons to whom one or more OFAC-administered sanctions apply; these include country-specific and counter narcotics trafficking, non-proliferation, and transnational criminal organization-related sanctions, and potentially under sanctions related to illicit trading in rough diamonds, although this had not been applied of early November 2011.[2][5]
OFAC publishes an integrated list of persons designated under its various sanctions programs that is known as the
To avoid designated persons or entities transferring funds out of the jurisdiction or otherwise rendering a determination ineffective, section 10 of Executive Order 13224 authorises the dispensing of prior notice of the determination to the persons subject to a determination.[8]
Organizations designated as SDGTs include Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi movement.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Executive Order 13224". State.gov. Retrieved October 19, 2010. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ ISBN 9781610391153.
- ^ "Executive Order 13224—Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism Notice of September 24, 2001 — Continuation of Emergency With Respect to UNITA" (PDF). Treasury.gov. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ "Counter Terrorism Sanctions". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ "OFAC Sanctions Programs and Country Information". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ "Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ "Specially Designated Nationals List". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ^ Federal Register - Designation of Harakat al-Nujaba, aka Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, aka Movement of the Noble Ones Hezbollah, aka The Movement of the Noble Ones, aka Golan Liberation Brigade, aka Ammar ibn Yasir Brigade, aka Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba Brigade, aka al-Hamad Brigade, aka al-Nujaba TV as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Federal Register. 15 March 2019.
External links
- FBI Most Wanted Terrorist list
- National Counterterrorism Center Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- State Department: Patterns of Global Terrorism
- National Counterterrorism Center Terrorist Exclusion List
- State Department is offering up to $25 million for information about key terrorists
- Executive Order on Terrorist Financing: Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism, White House, September 24, 2001
- US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control
- List of sanctions programs including nations