GARANTI IHRACAT ITHALAT KUYUMCULUK DIS TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
Aliases
GARANTI GOLD AND EXCHANGE
Nationality
Turkey;
Turkey;
Turkey
Address
Ali Gulacti Center Apt, No: 6-302 Mimar Kemalettin Mahallesi, Koca Ragippasa Caddesi, Fatih, Istanbul, 34130, Turkey
Reg. ID
105602-5, Registration Number;
1095528, Chamber of Commerce Number;
389094978900001, Central Registration System Number
Official reason
Proceeds from al-Jamal’s operations are funneled through a complex international network of intermediaries and money exchange houses. Turkey-based Garanti Ihracat Ithalat Kuyumculuk Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi (Garanti Ihracat) has facilitated millions of dollars’ worth of transactions for al-Jamal, including transfers in support of oil shipments to China and Syria. Syrian regime-affiliated, Treasury-designated businessman Muhammad Bara’ Qatirji has used Garanti Ihracat to send millions of dollars to al-Jamal for oil shipments. In addition to Garanti Ihracat, al-Jamal has been aided by Yemen-based money exchange houses AlAlamiyah Express Company for Exchange and Remittance and Al-Hadha Exchange Co., both of which have moved tens of millions of dollars in support of al-Jamal’s efforts to fund the Houthis. Garanti Ihracat Ithalat Kuyumculuk Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi, AlAlamiyah Express Company for Exchange and Remittance, and Al-Hadha Exchange Co. are all being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Sa’id al-Jamal.
On June 6, 2003, OFAC issued the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 594 (68 FR 34196, June 6, 2003 (“the Regulations”), to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 of September 23, 2001, “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism” (66 FR 49079, September 25, 2001). OFAC has amended the Regulations on several occasions.
On September 9, 2019, the President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) (IEEPA) and the United Nations Participation Act (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), issued E.O. 13886, “Modernizing Sanctions To Combat Terrorism” (84 FR 48041, September 12, 2019), effective September 10, 2019. In E.O. 13886, the President, finding it necessary to consolidate and enhance sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism by foreign terrorists, terminated the national emergency declared in E.O. 12947 of January 23, 1995, “Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” (60 FR 5079, January 25, 1995), and revoked E.O. 12947, as amended by E.O. 13099 of August 20, 1998, “Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” (63 FR 45167, August 25, 1998). In addition, the President amended E.O. 13224, in order to build upon initial steps taken in E.O. 12947, to further strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing threat posed by international terrorism, and in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency declared in E.O. 13224, with respect to the continuing and immediate threat of grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, which include acts of terrorism that threaten the Middle East peace process.
Section 1 of E.O. 13886 replaces in its entirety section 1 of E.O. 13224, which had been amended by a number of prior Executive orders (E.O. 13224, as amended by all such authorities, is referred to herein as “amended E.O. 13224”), but does not amend the Annex to E.O. 13224, which was previously amended by E.O. 13268 of July 2, 2002, “Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Taliban and Amendment of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001” (67 FR 44751, July 3, 2002) (“amended Annex to E.O. 13224”).
