Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1277 of 24 June 2025 amending for the 348th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations
Date: 2025-06-24
Institutions: Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person, terrorism








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/1277


26.6.2025







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1277
of 24 June 2025
         
amending for the 348th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations (1), and in particular Article 7(1), point (a), and Article 7a(1) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.












(2)


On 16 June 2025, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council established pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions 1267(1999), 1989(2011) and 2253(2015) added one entry to the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.












(3)


Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(4)


In order to ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation are effective it should enter into force immediately,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 June 2025.


For the Commission


On behalf of the President


Director-General


Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union






(1)  
            OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2002/881/oj.




ANNEX
In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 the following entry is added under the heading ‘Natural persons’:


            ‘Abubakar Swalleh (good quality alias: (a) Abubaker Swaleh; (b) Tom Kiyurige). Gender: male. Date of birth: 13.1.1992. Place of birth: Mengo, Uganda. Nationality: Ugandan. Passport no.: A00195974 (Ugandan passport). National identification no.: CM920231090NZA (Uganda). Address: Luzira Prison, Luzira, Kampala, Uganda. Other information: (a) provides financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to, or in support of, ISIL (listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq); (b) He acted, since 2018, as an ISIL facilitator who provides financial and logistic support including recruitment for ISIL in East and Southern Africa. Phone number: +963936016952. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 16.6.2025.’
         




ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1277/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)