Yemen

N/A

Yemen

10010057512 (id-National identification card); 1388114  (id-National identification card); 00481779 (passport-National passport) (on 2000-12-09 valid to 2006-12-09)[known to be expired]; 05274639 (passport-National passport) (on 2013-10-07 valid to 2019-10-07)[known to be expired]

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2021.410.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2021%3A410I%3ATOC

Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer was listed on 9 November 2021 pursuant to paragraphs 11 and 15 of Resolution 2140 (2014) and paragraph 14 of Resolution 2216 (2015), as meeting the designation criteria set out in paragraphs 17 and 18(c) of Resolution 2140 (2014). Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer has engaged in acts and provided support for acts that threaten the peace, security and stability of Yemen, including directing acts that violate applicable international humanitarian law in Yemen. With reference to the UN Panel of Experts’ Statement of Case of 28 August 2019, Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer has engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security, and stability of Yemen thereby meeting the criteria for designation as laid out in paragraph 17 of Resolution 2140 (2014). Serving as the Houthis’ Assistant Minister of Defence for Logistics, Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer assisted the Houthis in acquiring smuggled arms and weapons. He is also listed in connection with his direct involvement since early 2018 in the widespread and unlawful appropriation of assets and entities owned by private individuals under arrest by the Houthis or forced to take refuge outside of Yemen, in his capacity as ‘Judicial Custodian’ and in violation of international humanitarian law. Al Shaer has used his authority and a Sana’a based network comprising members of his family, a special criminal court, the national security bureau, the central bank, the registrar services of the Yemeni Ministry of Trade and Industry, and some private banks in order to arbitrarily dispossess selected private individuals and entities of their wealth without any due judicial process or a possibility of redress.

(UN ID: YEi.007)\n(Date of UN designation: 2021-11-09)\n(UNLI - 09.11.2021)

2021-11-18

EU

Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Yemen

UN

Yemen

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision 2014/932/CFSP.

On 26 February 2014, in view of the ongoing violence, terrorist activities and political, security, economic and humanitarian challenges in Yemen, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2140 (2014), where it reaffirmed its commitment to the unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Yemen, and established travel restrictions and asset freezes to designated persons and entities. On 14 April 2015, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2216 (2015) which imposed an arms embargo in relation to persons who engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Yemen. Derogations to the restrictive measures are possible as well as exemptions for humanitarian purposes.