Trinidad froze bank accounts of 96 persons over four years
From 2015 to March 2019, almost 100 people and groups have been added to the state’s consolidated list of terrorists whose assets in local financial institutions were ordered to be frozen. The list, which includes 96 people and groups as of March 25, 2019, also orders local banks not to do any business with those people and entities.
The latest addition to the list was the Pakistan-based Tariq Gidar Group by a High Court order on March 25. The first person was Trinidadian Imam Kareem Ibrahim, who was convicted in 2012 for conspiring to commit a terrorist act at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in 2006 by exploding fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport. He was sentenced to life in prison by a US District Judge in 2012. Ibrahim’s name was first added to the list, which is available on the Financial Intelligence Unit’s website, in 2015.(Trinidad Guardian)…[+]