US sanctions six Nigerians for aiding Boko Haram

The boys had been discovered responsible of establishing a cell within the United Arab Emirates to boost funds for Boko Haram.

A Chadian soldier walks previous an armoured car that the Chadian army mentioned belonged to Boko Haram [File: Emmanuel Braun/Reuters]

America has imposed new sanctions on people related with Nigeria’s armed group Boko Haram, the Treasury Division introduced.

Six Nigerian nationals who had been discovered responsible of establishing a Boko Haram cell within the United Arab Emirates to boost funds for fighters in Nigeria have been positioned on the sanctions checklist.

“With this motion, america joins the UAE in focusing on terrorist financing networks of mutual concern,” Beneath-Secretary of the Treasury Brian Nelson mentioned on Friday.

“Treasury continues to focus on monetary facilitators of terrorist exercise worldwide. We welcome multilateral motion on this Boko Haram community to make sure that it isn't in a position to transfer any additional funds by means of the worldwide monetary system,” he added.

The boys, recognized as Abdurrahman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad, had been convicted within the UAE of trying to ship $782,000 from Dubai to Nigeria.

Adamu and Muhammad had been sentenced to life in jail for violating UAE anti-terrorism legal guidelines, whereas Musa, Yusuf, Isa and Alhassan obtained sentences of 10 years in jail adopted by deportation.

“All property and pursuits in property of the people named above, and of any entities which are owned, instantly or not directly, 50 % or extra by them, individually, or with different blocked individuals, which are in america or within the possession or management of US individuals, should be blocked and reported to OFAC,” the Treasury mentioned in a assertion.

The US formally designated Boko Haram a “international terrorist group” in 2013. In keeping with the State Division, the group is “liable for quite a few assaults within the northern and northeastern areas of the nation, in addition to within the Lake Chad Basin in Cameroon, Chad and Niger which have killed hundreds of individuals since 2009”.

Individually, the Treasury additionally designated 5 people and 5 entities related to Myanmar’s army. The transfer got here after the US mentioned it has formally decided Myanmar’s military dedicated genocide and crimes in opposition to humanity in its violence in opposition to the Rohingya minority.