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Mahmud AL-WARFALLI

Aliases

Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf AL-WERFALLI; Mahmoud AL-WERFALLI

Nationality

Libya

DoB

1978

Address

Benghazi, Libya

Official reason

Mahmud al-Warfalli (al-Warfalli) serves as a commander of a militia known as the al-Saiqa Brigade.  Al-Warfalli is designated for being a foreign person who is responsible for, is complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in serious human rights abuse.  Since 2016, al-Warfalli has carried out or ordered the killings of 43 unarmed detainee...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm852

Date of listing

2019-12-10

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 13818 - Global Magnitsky

Regime

OFAC-horizontal

Target State

Human Rights

Measures

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

Sanctions Portfolio

https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/5441

Official Information

On December 23, 2016, the President signed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Pub. L. 114-328, Title XII, Subtitle F) (the “Act”) into law. The Act authorized the President to impose targeted sanctions on any foreign person the President determines is, among other things, responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other ...

Additional Details

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Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/29/2018-14060/global-magnitsky-sanctions-regulations