Updated sanctions report: Osama bin Laden / "Al-Qaeda"/ Taliban
The Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research
EAER has published an amendment to Annex 2 of the Ordinance of 2
October 2000 on measures to be taken against persons and organisations
with links to Usama bin Laden, the group "Al-Qaeda" or the Taliban (SR
946. 203).
By decision of 2 December 2024, the responsible UN
Sanctions Committee amended the list of persons, companies and
organisations sanctioned in this context. The amendment is directly
applicable in Switzerland. On 4 December 2024, SECO therefore amended
the SESAM (SECO Sanctions Management) sanctions database, which is
relevant for Switzerland, and published the amendment on its website.
In accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, financial
intermediaries are required to implement the prohibitions, freeze the
assets of the sanctioned persons and report the affected business
relationships to SECO. Reporting to SECO does not release a financial
intermediary from carrying out additional investigations in accordance
with Art. 6 AMLA in the event of suspicions and, if it is unable to
dispel them, from immediately submitting a report to the Money
Laundering Reporting Office in accordance with Art. 9 AMLA.