Slovakia

1972-03-17

Slovakia

BA4490378, Passport

Additionally, Alhaitham Al Ali (Alhaitham) is a Slovak citizen and arms dealer who has acted as a middleman for Black Shield in its arms deals with a European armaments firm. Alhaitham specifically worked to assist Black Shield broker an arms deal between the European firm and an African country, coordinating a contract for millions of rounds of ammunition, tens of thousands of rifles and pistols, rocket propelled grenades, and indirect fire systems. Phoenix Lines S.R.O. is a Slovakia-based company fully owned by Alhaitham. OFAC is designating Alhaitham pursuant to E.O. 14038 for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Black Shield, a person whose property and interests are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038. OFAC is designating Phoenix Lines S.R.O. pursuant to E.O. 14038 for being owned or controlled by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Alhaitham, a person whose property and interests are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14038.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2251

2024-04-15

US

Executive Order 14038 Blocking Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in Belarus

OFAC country specific

Belarus

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry, Trade sanctions

E.O. 14038. On August 9, 2021, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), issued E.O. 14038. In E.O. 14038, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13405, finding that the Belarusian regime's harmful activities and long-standing abuses aimed at suppressing democracy and the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Belarus including illicit and oppressive activities stemming from the August 9, 2020, fraudulent Belarusian presidential election and its aftermath, such as the elimination of political opposition and civil society organizations and the regime's disruption and endangering of international civil air travel—constituted an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

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