Designations
Designations
Overview of TFTC designations
The TFTC provides a body for coordinating joint multilateral actions among its members. Often, this takes the form of joint multilateral designations aimed at disrupting financial flows to terrorist networks and individuals. The TFTC is a collaborative body – actions taken under the name of the TFTC are done through consensus and are based upon and enacted using the domestic authorities of TFTC member states.
Since the TFTC’s inception, member states have issued eight rounds of coordinated designations, sanctioning a total of 101 individuals and entities, including targets related to Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula, ISIS (Daesh), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force, and Hizballah. While the TFTC does not maintain and cannot enforce a sanctions list of its own, press releases of TFTC members, based on their own domestic authorities, are provided on this page.
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In TFTC’s first joint disruptive action on October 2017, members imposed sanctions on eight individuals and one entity, targeting leaders, financiers, and facilitators of the ISIS in Yemen (ISIS-Y) and al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). This action focused on terrorists in Yemen and the surrounding region who posed a direct threat to the security of the TFTC member states, Yemen, and the international community.
Terrorist GroupsISIS-YemenAQAPEnglish -
The TFTC’s second designation in May 2018 aimed to disrupt Lebanese Hizballah, and focused on their senior leadership by designating 14 Hizballah members and affiliates, including one member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. TFTC members designated members of Hizballah’s Shura Council, the primary decision-making body of Hizballah, to include Hasan Nasrallah, Hizballah’s Secretary General. The Shura Council is Hizballah’s supreme decision-making body responsible for religious, military, and strategic matters and asserts control over administrative, planning, and policy-making authorities.
Terrorist GroupsHizballahIslamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsEnglish -
TFTC’s third designation on October 28, 2018 included nine individuals from the Taliban and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. These designations, in addition to disrupting terrorist safe havens in South Asia, highlighted Iran’s financial and material support to the terrorist group.
Terrorist GroupsTalibanIslamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsEnglish -
TFTC’s fourth joint action in October 2019 marked its most ambitious tranche and included 25 targets affiliated with the Iranian regime’s terror-support networks in the region. In another first, this action primarily focused on the financial infrastructure of terrorist networks, specifically targeting entities providing cover to facilitate terrorist financing. The 21 businesses targeted in this action provided financial support to the Basij Resistance Force (Basij), a paramilitary force subordinate to the IRGC that have long been used as shock troops by the regime to oppress domestic opposition and foment regional conflicts. This coordinated action provided a concrete step towards denying the Iranian regime the ability to undermine the stability of the region. The remaining four designated targets were Hizballah-affiliated individuals who led and coordinated the group’s operational, intelligence, and financial activities in Iraq.
Terrorist GroupsIslamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsHizballahEnglish -
The TFTC jointly designated six targets affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) that had provided a critical financial and logistical lifeline to its main branch in Syria, its Afghanistan affiliate (ISIS Khorasan), and its global facilitation networks. The three designated money services businesses played a vital role in transferring funds to support Syria-based ISIS fighters and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of liquidity to ISIS leadership. This coordinated action further challenges ISIS’s ability to conceal its activities and finance its operations through key money services businesses and sham 'social welfare' front organizations.
Terrorist GroupsISISISIS-KhorasanEnglish -
The TFTC’s six joint action involved proposals submitted by several member states, and included three individuals from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), including two with links to Hizballah; one company and four individuals associated with ISIS, including one facilitator for ISIS Khorasan; and six Boko Haram financiers. For the first time, the TFTC coordinated the designation of terrorist groups, as member states sanctioned Saraya al-Ashtar and Saraya al-Mukhtar.
Terrorist GroupsIRGC-QFHizballahISISISIS-KhorasanBoko HaramSaraya al-AshtarSaraya al-MukhtarEnglish -
Today, the seven members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) announced joint designations of 15 al-Shabaab leaders, operatives, and financial facilitators operating in Somalia. These targets were involved in a wide range of activities in support of al-Shabaab, including efforts to raise funds and the proliferation of Improvised Explosive Devices.
Terrorist GroupsAl ShabaabEnglish -
Today, the seven members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) announced joint designations of three ISIS facilitators in Africa, including the chief financial officer of the ISIS-Somalia. The individuals being designated have served as key ISIS financiers and operatives, facilitating the activities of the terrorist group, its affiliates, and its leaders operating across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia, and South Africa.
Terrorist GroupsISISISIS-SomaliaEnglish