ROSHAN MONEY EXCHANGE

Floor 5, Shop 25, Kandahar City Sarafi Market, Kandahar District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan; Lakri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Aziz Market, In front of Azizi Bank, Waish Border, Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan; Gardi Jungle, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Chaghi, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Fahr Khan (variant Furqan) Center, Shop Number 1584, Chalhor Mal Road, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; St. Flore, Flat Number 4, Furqan Center, Jamaludden (variant Jamaludin) Afghani Road, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Muslim Plaza Building, Doctor Banu Road, 2nd Floor, Office Number 4, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Cholmon Road, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Munsafi Road, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Abdul Samad Khan Street, Next to Fathma Jena Road, Kadari Place, 1st Floor, Shop Number 1, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan; Safar Bazaar, Garm Ser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Main Bazaar, Safar, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Money Exchange Market, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Haji Ghulam Nabi Market, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Lashkar Gah Bazaar, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Hazar Joft, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Ismat Bazaar, Marjah District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Zaranj, Nimruz Province, Afghanistan; Suite 8, 4th Floor, Sarrafi Market, District 1, Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

Roshan Money Exchange (RMX) is being designated today for providing financial, material, or technological support for, or financial, or other services to, or in support of, the Taliban. RMX stores and transfers funds in support of Taliban military operations and the Taliban’s role in the Afghan narcotics trade. As of 2011, RMX was one of the primary hawalas used by Taliban officials in Helmand Province. In 2011, a senior Taliban member withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars from an RMX branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to distribute to Taliban shadow provincial governors. To fund the Taliban’s spring offensive in 2011, the Taliban shadow governor of Helmand Province sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to RMX. Also in 2011, a Taliban member received tens of thousands of dollars from RMX to support military operations. An RMX branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region also held tens of thousands of dollars to be collected by a Taliban commander. In 2010, on behalf of the Taliban shadow governor of Helmand Province, a Taliban member used RMX to send thousands of dollars to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. The RMX branch in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, has been used by the Taliban to transfer funds for operations to Helmand Province. In 2011, a Taliban sub-commander transferred tens of thousands of dollars to a Taliban commander through the RMX branch in Lashkar Gah. The Taliban also sent funds to the RMX branch in Lashkar Gah for distribution to Taliban commanders in 2010. Also in 2010, a Taliban member used RMX to send tens of thousands of dollars to Helmand Province and Herat Province, Afghanistan, on behalf of the Taliban shadow governor of Helmand Province. In 2009, a senior Taliban representative collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from an RMX branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to finance Taliban military operations in Afghanistan. In 2008, a Taliban leader used RMX to transfer tens of thousands of dollars to Afghanistan. The Taliban also uses RMX to facilitate its role in the Afghan narcotics trade. As of 2011, Taliban officials, including the shadow governor of Helmand Province, transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars from an RMX branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to hawalas in Afghanistan for the purchase of narcotics on behalf of Taliban officials. Also in 2011, a Taliban official directed Taliban commanders in Helmand Province to transfer opium proceeds through RMX. One Taliban district chief transferred thousands of dollars from Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan to an RMX branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

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https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg1627

2012-06-29

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Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 594

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Terrorism

Blocking Property

• https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/2396

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”).

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