Roshan money exchange

Branch Office 1, Shop number 1584 Furqan (variant Fahr Khan) Center, Chalhor Mal Road, Quetta, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 1, Flat number 4 Furqan Center, Jamaluddin Afghani Road, Quetta, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 1, Office number 4, 2nd Floor Muslim Plaza Building, Doctor Banu Road, Quetta, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 1 Cholmon Road, Quetta, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 1, Shop number 1, 1st Floor Kadari Place, Abdul Samad Khan Street (next to Fatima Jena Road), Quetta, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 2 Safar Bazaar, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 2 Main Bazaar, Safar, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 3 Haji Ghulam Nabi Market, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 3 Money Exchange Market, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 3 Lashkar Gah Bazaar, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 4 Hazar Joft, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 5 Ismat Bazaar, Marjah District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 6, Zaranj, Nimruz Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 7, Suite number 8, 4th Floor Sarafi Market, District number 1, Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 7, Shop number 25, 5th Floor Sarafi Market, Kandahar City, Kandahar District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 8, Lakri City, Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 9, Gerd-e-Jangal, Chaghi District, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 10, Chaghi, Chaghi District, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan; Branch Office 11 Aziz Market, in front of Azizi Bank, Waish Border, Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan; Branch Office 1 Munsafi Road, Quetta, Baluchistan Provinc, Pakistan

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Owned by Ahmed Shah Noorzai Obaidullah. Roshan Money Exchange (RMX) stores and transfers funds to support Taliban military operations and the Taliban's role in the Afghan narcotics trade. RMX was one of the primary hawalas (informal money remittance services) used by Taliban officials in Helmand Province as of 2011. 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 local operations. 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. The money sent to RMX originated in Iran. In 2008, a Taliban leader used RMX to transfer tens of thousands of dollars from Pakistan 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.

EU

2017/404 (OJ L63)

(Date of UN designation: 2012-06-29)\n(Owned by Ahmed Shah Noorzai Obaidullah. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/une/5282182

2017-03-09

EU

Restrictive measures imposed with respect to the Taliban

UN

Afghanistan

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 2011/486/CFSP.

The measures were initially imposed on 15 October 1999. On 17 June 2011, the United Nations' Security Council adopted resolutions 1988 (2011) and 1989 (2011) and decided that the list of individuals and entities subject to restrictive measures originally imposed by resolution 1267 (1999) would be split in two. The original resolution 1267 (1999) concerns Afganistan and the Taliban. Now the resolution is concerning ISIL (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities. The measures imposed with respect to the Taliban are described under this restrictive measures regime. The measures imposed on ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida are described under the thematic restrictive measures section. Derogations to the restrictive measures are possible as well as exemptions for humanitarian purposes.