The Treasury Department on Friday added three senior recruiters from the Islamic State to its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons after they appeared in a beheading video that was used to radicalize individuals in Southeast Asia.
“We are sanctioning these terrorists along with our UN and international partners as part of a coordinated effort to counter ISIS’s global networks that enable the group to recruit foreign fighters to conduct international terrorist attacks,” the Trump administration said in a statement.
The three men named in the statement are Mohammad Reza Lahaman Kiram, Mohamad Rafi Udin, and Mohammed Karim Yusop Faiz, from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Phillippines, respectively. The designations mean all of their property interests in the U.S. are blocked, and U.S. citizens are banned from any transactions with them.
The sanctions come a day after the U.N. Security Council and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee also designated Udin, Faiz, and Kiram for acting for or behalf of the Islamic State militant group. The moved requires all U.N. member states to freeze the assets and block travel of the three men, in addition to denying them access to the international financial system.
