Somalia anti-money laundering committee slaps sanctions on top Al-Shabaab leaders

Somalia

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s anti-money laundering committee on Thursday slapped new sanctions on 8 Al-Shabaab officials, including the deputy leader of the Al-Qaeda-aligned insurgency, weeks after the United States said that the terror group had reversed all gains made by the Somali army in a two-year long offensive in the central states of Galmudug and Hirshabelle. 

Among those included in the sanctions list are the deputy emirs of Al-Shabaab Abukar Ali Adan and Mahad Karate, several security commanders and other senior officials within the the Al-Qaeda offshoot movement. 

The committee instructed Somali financial authorities to freeze all assets belonging to the Al-Shabaab members included in the government’s sanctions list and warned the public to avoid dealing with them and report any transactions involving them to the country’s financial reporting center. 

It’s not clear how the move will impact Al-Shabaab’s ability to continue conducting military operations against the Somali army and its international partners. Many of those in the list had already been targeted with sanctions by the United States. 

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