Treasury Sanctions Individuals Affiliated With Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Caucasus Emirate
10/5/2015
Action Targets two ISIL Foreign Terrorist Fighters, one International Recruiter for ISIL Foreign Terrorist Fighters, and one Caucasus Emirate Foreign Terrorist Fighter
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the designation of two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) foreign terrorist fighters and one Caucasus Emirate (AKA Imarat Kavkaz) foreign terrorist fighter pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. In a related action, Treasury on October 2 designated an individual who recruited potential foreign terrorist fighters for ISIL, also pursuant to E.O. 13224. These designations continue Treasury’s efforts to attack ISIL’s finances by inhibiting these individuals from using the international financial system and support President Obama’s strategy to disrupt and ultimately destroy ISIL.
All four individuals have also been designated by the United Nations (UN) Security Council pursuant to resolutions 1267 and 1989 and added to the UN al-Qaida Sanctions List. These designations support the efforts of the Counter ISIL Finance Group (CIFG), which is co-led by the United States, Italy, and Saudi Arabia, and focuses on disrupting the financial and economic activities of ISIL. The third CIFG meeting is scheduled for this week in Washington on October 6 and 7.
As a result of today’s actions, any property or interest in property of the designated persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction is frozen. Additionally, transactions by U.S. persons involving the designated persons are generally prohibited.
“Today’s designations target both ISIL and Caucasus Emirate, showing our unwavering commitment to depleting the financial strength of violent terrorist organizations,” said Daniel L. Glaser, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing. “This action, which follows U.S. and UN designations during the past week, highlights the ramp-up in U.S. and international efforts to aggressively target and destroy ISIL.”
ISIL-Related Designations
Aseel Muthana
Aseel Muthana was designated on October 2 for acting for or on behalf of ISIL.
As of early September 2015, Syria-based Aseel Muthana, a UK national, was a member of ISIL along with his brother, Nasser Muthana. Aseel and Nasser Muthana were considered representative of the group’s recruitment drive in the west. Nasser Muthana was designated by the State Department on September 29, 2015.
In July 2014, Aseel Muthana, via an online question and answer session, gave guidance to an individual interested in joining ISIL, inviting the individual to contact him directly via a social media service so that Aseel Muthana could help him join the group.
As of June 2014, Aseel Muthana had traveled from the United Kingdom to Syria to fight with ISIL.
Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiyev
Atabiyev is being designated today for acting for or on behalf of ISIL.
Russian-national Atabiyev is the deputy to U.S. and UN-designated ISIL commander Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili (AKA Umar al-Shishani) and swore an oath of allegiance to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in December 2013. Atabiyev runs ISIL’s Russian language media operations and in June 2015 launched Furat Media, a group that has declared itself to be the official outlet for ISIL’s Russian language media production. Atabiyev recently appeared in a video in which he urged Muslims from the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia in the North Caucasus to join ISIL. In October 2013, ISIL appointed Atabiyev as governor of the town of Al-Dana in Syria’s Idlib province after he participated in battles against Syrian regime forces. In 2013, he also maintained a school in Syria to indoctrinate and train Syrian boys to become future fighters for ISIL.
Akhmed Chatayev
Chatayev is being designated today for acting for or on behalf of ISIL.
As of mid-2015, Chatayev was a member of ISIL and was part of a group of militants that was planning attacks against U.S. and Turkish facilities.
Text accompanying a video posted online in February 2015 featuring Chatayev and Atabiyev indicates that Chatayev is the commander of the Yarmouk Battalion, a Chechen faction of ISIL. In the video, Chatayev greets militants in Dagestan who in December 2012 pledged allegiance to ISIL and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and says that ISIL in Syria rejoiced when it heard the news about their pledges. In the video, Chatayev also calls on those militants in Chechnya who had not yet declared their allegiance to ISIL to do so.https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press...ges/jl0199.aspxNARRATIVE SUMMARIES OF REASONS FOR LISTING
In accordance with paragraph 13 of resolution 1822 (2008) and subsequent related resolutions, the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee makes accessible a narrative summary of reasons for the listing for individuals, groups, undertakings and entities included in the Al-Qaida Sanctions List.
QDi.365Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee's website:
02 October 2015
Date(s) on which the narrative summary was updated:
02 October 2015
Reason for listing:
Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev was listed on 2 October 2015 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf, or in support of”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to”, “recruiting for or otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida (QDe.004), Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (QDi.299).
Additional information:
Akhmed Rajapovich Chataev left in 2001 for the Austria, from where he was providing financial and logistical support to militants operating in the Northern Caucasus.
In September 2007, Chataev organized a delivery to the Chechen Republic, Russian Federation, consisting of US $ 12,000, military uniforms, a personal computer and audio equipment for the terrorists operating in the Northern Caucasus.
Chataev is currently one of the leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). He directly commands 130 militants and calls on Muslims to join the armed fight against the official authorities in Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq, and other countries with the aim of establishing a caliphate.
In particular, one of the videos posted on the Internet shows Chataev justifying ISIL’s activities and calling on other Muslims to join in the establishment of a caliphate. The video, presumably made in October-November 2014, also shows a 5-6 year old child with four killed ISIL militants lying nearby.
A video posted on the Internet shows Chataev and Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiev(QDi.364) sat in ISIL uniform and expressed joy at the oath given by emir of “Dagestan Vilayat”(not listed) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (QDi.299), and cautioned him against breaking the oath.
Chataev is responsible for training and redeploying Russian-speaking ISIL militants from the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq to the Russian Federation with a view to setting up ISIL cells and conducting terrorist acts. He is the organizer and mastermind of planned ISIL terrorist acts against Russian diplomatic missions abroad.
Chataev is wanted by the authorities of the Russian Federation for terrorist crimes committed in its territory.
Related listed individuals and entities:
Al-Qaida (QDe.004), listed on 6 October 2001
Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115), listed on 18 October 2004
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (QDi.299), listed on 5 October 2011
Islam Seit-Umarovich Atabiev (QDi.364), listed on 2 October 2015
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