SA's terrorism financing problem

[Bradley Prior]

SA's terrorism financing problem

The US embassy in South Africa has twice raised the alarm recently about terrorism in the country. On 26 October it issued a security alert for a possible terror attack in Sandton, the financial centre of Johannesburg. [The Conversation]

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

They caught the terrorists in Bryanston already

 

[longboy]

Religon of pieces again? Or mentally ill white males?

 

[rvZA]

Just go right ahead and greylist the country. There is absolutely no better way to get the government to take some action.

 

[zerocool2009]

Just go right ahead and greylist the country. There is absolutely no better way to get the government to take some action.

When are you back in SA? Sounds like you have a solution for every single issue SA have. Wanna stand for president?

 

[Cosmik Debris]

This is significant. SA facing greylisting and the following under US Sanctions:

Brothers Nufael Akbar and Yunus Mohamad Akbar are senior members of a Durban, South Africa-based ISIS cell led by Farhad Hoomer. Nufael Akbar has collaborated with and been directed by Hoomer. Nufael Akbar is a central commanding figure in the Durban-based ISIS cell. Yunus Akbar functions as an enforcer and logistical coordinator for the ISIS cell.

Today’s action also targets two other Hoomer associates, Mohamad Akbar and Umar Akbar, who were arrested in 2018 by South African authorities along with Hoomer for their involvement in a plan to deploy improvised incendiary devices near a mosque and commercial retail buildings.

And anyone doing business with these companies owned by them will be placed under sanctions:

OFAC is also designating four south Africa-based companies in connection with Nufael Akbar and Yunus Mohamad Akbar. MA Gold Traders (PTY) LTD is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being owned, controlled, or directed by Nufael Akbar. Bailey Holdings (PTY) LTD and Flexoseal Waterproofing Solutions (PTY) LTD are being designated, pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being owned, controlled, or directed by Yunus Mohamad Akbar. HJ Bannister Construction CC is being designated today, pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being jointly owned, controlled, or directed by Nufael Akbar and Yunus Mohamad Akbar.

Additionally, Treasury is designating, pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, four South Africa-based companies for being owned, controlled, or directed by Farhad Hoomer: Sultans Construction CC, Ashiq Jewellers CC, Ineos Trading (PTY) LTD, and Shaahista Shoes CC.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1084

 

[RonSwanson]

Just go right ahead and greylist the country. There is absolutely no better way to get the government to take some action.

Do you really think that they care at all?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Do you really think that they care at all?

They will when it becomes increasingly difficult to move their ill gotten gains overseas and when they get less dollar for the rand.

 

[RonSwanson]

They will when it becomes increasingly difficult to move their ill gotten gains overseas and when they get less dollar for the rand.

That's because you are thinking like a law-abiding citizen. These are hardcore terrorists, it does not concern them in the slightest, because they know of many ways that are even cheaper than the legitimate ones. Even the halfwit goatherd Zuma has used the diplomatic bag to stash his ill-gotten gains to the UAE, circumventing every single exchange control and fees, this after signing the Anti-Money-laundering Bill in 2017 , and the other ministers use it with impunity.
In fact, they don't only smuggle money, but muthi and they traffic humans as well.

 

[j4ck455]

In January 2007 Jonathan Schanzer, a security analyst, reported that two South African cousins — Farhad Ahmed Dockrat, the principal of the Darus Salaam Islamic College in Laudium, Pretoria, and Dr Junaid Ismail Dockrat, a dentist — were proposed for consideration on the UN Security Council’s list of terror suspects.

They had already been placed on the US treasury department’s list of Al Qaeda’s supporters.

According to papers submitted to the Security Council, Farhad was alleged to be an Al Qaeda “facilitator and terrorist financier”. Junaid, it was claimed, was also an Al Qaeda “financier, recruiter and facilitator”.

I wonder if those dockrats are related to this one:

Ismail Dockrat Archives - DefenceWeb

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