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Implementation of Section 51A of UAPA, QDe.169 Name: Islamic State In Iraq And the Levant
In South-East Asia (ISIL-SEA, ISIL-South East Asia)
1967: Updates to UNSC’s 1267/ 1989 ISIL
Name (original script): na
(Da'esh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List:
A.k.a.: a) Islamic State East Asia Division b) Dawlatul
Addition of 1 entry Islamiyah Waliyatul Mashriq F.k.a.: na Address: na
Listed on: 27 Jan. 2022 Other information: Formed in
January 30, 2023
June 2016 upon announcement by now-deceased
Isnilon Hapilon (QDi.204). Associated with Islamic State
1. Please refer to Section 51 of our Master Direction on
in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq
Know Your Customer dated February 25, 2016 as
(QDe.115). INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special
amended on May 10 , 2021, in terms of which
Notice web link: www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/
“Regulated Entities (REs) shall ensure that in terms of
Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities
Section 51A of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)
(UAPA) Act, 1967, they do not have any account in the 3. The UNSC press releases concerning amendments to
name of individuals/entities appearing in the lists of the list is available at URL: https://www.un.org/
individuals and entities, suspected of having terrorist securitycouncil/sanctions/1267/press-releases
links, which are approved by and periodically circulated 4. The details of the sanction measures and exemptions
by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).” are available at the following URL: https://
w w w. u n . o r g / s e c u r i t yco u n c i l /s a n c t i o n s /
2. In this connection, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
1267#further_information
has informed about UNSC press release SC/15186 dated
January 27, 2023 wherein the Security Council In view of the above, Regulated Entities (REs) are
Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 advised to take appropriate action in terms of section
(2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al- 51, 52 and 53 of the RBI Master Direction (MD) on
Qaida, and associated individuals, groups, undertakings Know Your Customer (KYC) dated February 25, 2016 as
and entities approved the addition of the entry specified amended from time to time and strictly follow the
below to its ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of procedure laid down in the UAPA Order dated Feb 02,
individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, 2021 annexed to the MD on KYC ibid.
travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 5. Updated lists of individuals and entities linked to ISIL
of Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) and adopted (Da'esh), Al-Qaida and Taliban are available at:
under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations:
www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1267/
B. Entities and other groups aq_sanctions_list

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