Articles from 2023

Please be advised that the UK has made amendments to the listings in relation to Makhtab Al-Khidamat (Unique ID: AQD0067) Mohamed Amin Mostafa (Unique ID: AQD0237) Said Jan 'Abd Al-Salam (Unique ID: AQD0302) Iyad Ag Ghali (Unique ID: AQD0208) who are designated under the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations). The UK regulations are given effect...

Please be advised that the following persons Nabil Khaled Hilal CHOUMAN (Group ID: 16203) Muhammad DEIF (Group ID: 16183) Musa Muhammad Salim DUDIN (Group ID: 16182) Adbelbasit Elhassan Mohamed Khair HAMZA (Group ID: 16202) Marwan ISSA (Group ID: 16184) Yahya Ibrahim Hassan SINWAR (Group ID: 16185) have been designated under the Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations...

Please be advised that Sergey STOGNIENKO has been removed from the designations made under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) and is no longer subject to an asset freeze or trusts sanctions. The UK regulations are given effect within the Bailiwick under the Sanctions (Implementation of UK Regimes) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Brexit) Regulations, 2020 that have been...

Please be advised that 29 persons have been added to the list of persons designated under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) and are now subject to an asset freeze and trusts services sanctions . Details of the persons concerned are available here: Notice_Russia_081123.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk) The persons referred to above appear on the UK’s consolidated...

The Commission has today issued amendments to the country lists in Appendix C and Appendix I of the Handbook on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing reflecting the Financial Action Task Force’s updated list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, which includes Bulgaria. FATF has removed Albania, Cayman Islands, Jordan and Panama from its list of jurisdictions under increased...

The Commission is pleased to announce that the States of Guernsey have appointed The Rt Hon The Lord Henley as a new Commissioner. The vacancy arose following the sad death of Baroness Couttie. Oliver Henley is a longstanding member of the House of Lords. He is currently a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. He previously served as a Minister under four Prime Ministers, from Margaret...

The Policy & Resources Committee (P&R) is carrying out a review of frozen assets linked to persons designated under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the Russia regime). The purpose of the review is to enable P&R to update its records in respect of assets frozen under the Russia regime. It is being carried out using P&R’s information gathering powers at section 15 of the Sanctions...

On 24 October 2023, the Royal Court handed down a judgment in relation to a Commission matter, which was brought by the appellant s who applied for a stay order in relation to sanctions the Commission planned to impose. The Commission’s action in seeking to oppose this application marks an unusual exception to, rather than a change in, our more habitual approach of being prepared to entertain...

The Commission has become aware of a possible phishing attempt being sent to some of its licensees purporting to be from the Commission. If you have received an email from the Commission and you are unsure of its authenticity, please do not click on any links or attachments and instead forward it to [email protected]. The Commission sends its emails from the domain ending “gfsc.gg” and the email...