CELEX: 32012D0256
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Council Implementing Decision 2012/256/CFSP of 14 May 2012 implementing Council Decision 2011/782/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria

15.5.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 126/9
            
         COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION 2012/256/CFSP
   of 14 May 2012
   implementing Council Decision 2011/782/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against Syria
   THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on European Union,
   Having regard to Decision 2011/782/CFSP (1), and in particular Article 21(1) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               On 1 December 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/782/CFSP.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               In view of the gravity of the situation in Syria, additional persons and entities should be included in the list of persons and entities subject to restrictive measures as set out in Annex I to Decision 2011/782/CFSP.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               In addition, the information relating to three persons listed in Annex I to Decision 2011/782/CFSP should be updated, and the listing for one person should be removed,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The persons and entities listed in Annex I to this Decision shall be added to the list set out in Annex I to Decision 2011/782/CFSP.
   Article 2
   Annex I to Decision 2011/782/CFSP shall be amended as set out in Annex II to this Decision.
   Article 3
   This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   
      Done at Brussels, 14 May 2012.
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         C. ASHTON
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 319, 2.12.2011, p. 56.
   
      ANNEX I
      
         Persons and entities referred to in Article 1
      
      
         Persons
      
      
                   
               
               
                  Name
               
               
                  Identifying information
               
               
                  Reasons
               
               
                  Date of listing
               
            
                  1.
               
               
                  Adib Mayaleh
               
               
                  Born 1955, Daraa
               
               
                  Adib Mayaleh is responsible for providing economic and financial support to the Syrian regime through his functions as the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria.
               
               
                  15.5.2012
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Salim Altoun, a.k.a. Saleem Altoun, a.k.a. Abu Shaker
               
               
                  Chairman and CEO of Altoun Group
                  Born 1940 in Caracas, Venzuela
                  He has Venezuelan citizenship, identification number 028173131 (probably in possession of Venezuelan passport).
                  He has a Lebanese residence and work permit number: 1486/2011
               
               
                  Provides financial support to the regime. Involved in a scheme through Altoun Group to export Syrian oil with the listed company Sytrol in order to provide revenue to the regime.
               
               
                  15.5.2012
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Youssef Klizli
               
               
                  Assistant to Salim Altoun
               
               
                  Provides financial support to the regime. Assisted Salim Altoun in setting up a scheme through Altoun Group to export Syrian oil with the listed company Sytrol in order to provide revenue to the regime.
               
               
                  15.5.2012
               
            
         
      
         Entities
      
      
                   
               
               
                  Name
               
               
                  Identifying information
               
               
                  Reasons
               
               
                  Date of listing
               
            
                  1.
               
               
                  General Organisation of Tobacco
               
               
                  Salhieh Street 616, Damascus, Syria
               
               
                  Provides financial support to the Syrian regime. The General Organisation of Tobacco is wholly owned by the Syrian state. The profits that the organisation makes, including through the sale of licenses to market foreign brands of tobacco and taxes levied on imports of foreign brands of tobacco are transferred to the Syrian state.
               
               
                  15.5.2012
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Altoun Group
               
               
                  
                              Altoun Group
                           
                        
                              Maaraba Damascus Countryside
                           
                        
                              North Circular Highway
                           
                        
                              Damascus
                           
                        
                              Syria
                           
                        
                              tel.: 00963-11-5915685
                           
                        
                              Postal Box 30484
                           
                        1987 US SIC Codes 6719
                  NACE Codes 7415
               
               
                  Provides financial support to the Syrian regime. The entity is involved in a scheme to export Syrian oil with the listed company Sytrol in order to provide revenue to the regime.
               
               
                  15.5.2012
               
            
   
      ANNEX II
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The entries in Annex I to Decision 2011/782/CFSP for the persons named below shall be replaced by the entries set out below:
                  
                              Name
                           
                           
                              Identifying information
                           
                           
                              Reasons
                           
                           
                              Date of listing
                           
                        
                              Manal Al Assad (a.k.a. Manal Al Ahmad)
                           
                           
                              Born: 02.02.1970.
                              Place of Birth: Damascus
                              Passport number (Syrian): 0000000914
                              Maiden name: Al Jadaan
                           
                           
                              Spouse of Maher Al Assad, and as such benefiting from and closely associated with the regime.
                           
                           
                              23.3.2012
                           
                        
                              Issam Anbouba
                           
                           
                              President of Anbouba for Agricultural Industries Co.
                              Born 1952 in Homs, Syria
                           
                           
                              Providing financial support for the repressive apparatus and the paramilitary groups exerting violence against the civil population in Syria. Providing property (premises, warehouses) for improvised detention centers. Financial relations with high Syrian officials.
                           
                           
                              2.9.2011
                           
                        
                              Mazen al-Tabba
                           
                           
                              Born: 01.01.1958
                              Place of Birth: Damascus
                              Passport number (Syrian): 004415063 expires 06.05.2015
                           
                           
                              Business partner of Ihab Makhlouf and Nizar al-Assad (subjected to sanctions on 23/08/2011); co-owner, with Rami Makhlouf, of the Al-Diyar lil-Saraafa (a.k.a. Diar Electronic Services) currency exchange company, which supports the policy of the Central Bank of Syria.
                           
                           
                              23.3.2012
                           
                        
            
                  2.
               
               
                  The entry listed below shall be removed:
                  
                              68.
                           
                           
                              Saqr Khayr Bek.