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Revision as of 09:22, 12 March 2010 by Epeefleche (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A Specially Designated Terrorist is any person who is determined by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to be a specially designated terrorist (SDT) under notices or regulations issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Executive Order 12947, issued by President Bill Clinton on January 23, 1995, prohibits financial transactions with any SDT. The Order identified 12 organizations and 18 individuals that threatened to disrupt the Middle East peace process, and empowered the Secretary of the Treasury and the U.S. Attorney General to expand the list. All SDT assets were frozen, transfers of funds, goods, or services to SDTs were prohibited, and any U.S. entity that hold any funds in which any interest is held in an SDT is required by law to report that interest to the appropriate U.S. authorities. The sanctions apply to any entity owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, an SDT. They also apply to foreign branches of U.S. entities, but not to subsidiaries formed under non-U.S. law.
On January 25, 1995, Hezbollah was listed as an SDT, Osama bin Laden was added in 1998, and on December 4, 2001, OFAC designated the Holy Land Foundation as an SDT. The SDT list appears in the Federal Register, which is updated regularly.
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