Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 673/2012 of 23 July 2012 implementing Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 673/2012

of 23 July 2012

implementing Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view

of the situation in Syria

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European

Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 (1), and in

particular Article 32(1) thereof,

against Syria (2), additional persons and entities should be

included in the list of natural and legal persons, entities

or bodies subject to restrictive measures set out in Annex

II to Regulation (EU) No 36/2012,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

On 18 January 2012, the Council adopted Regulation

(EU) No 36/2012.

(2)

In view of the gravity of the situation in Syria, and

in accordance with Council Implementing Decision

2012/424/CFSP of 23 July 2012 implementing Council

Decision 2011/782/CFSP concerning restrictive measures

The persons and entities listed in the Annex to this Regulation

shall be added to the list set out in Annex II to Regulation (EU)

No 36/2012.

Article 2

The Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its

publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 July 2012.

For the Council

The President

C. ASHTON

(1) OJ L 16, 19.1.2012, p. 1.

(2) See page 81 of this Official Journal.

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ANNEX

Persons and entities referred to in Article 1

Persons

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

1.

Brigadier General

Sha’afiq Masa

Head of Branch 215 (Damascus) of the

army's intelligence service. Responsible for

the torture of detained opponents. Involved

in repressive actions against civilians.

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2.

Brigadier General

Burhan Qadour

Head of Branch 291 (Damascus) of the

army's intelligence service. Responsible for

the torture of opponents in custody.

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3.

Brigadier General

Salah Hamad

Deputy Head of Branch 291 of the army's

intelligence service. Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

24.7.2012

4.

Brigadier General

Muhammad (or:

Mohammed) Khallouf

(a.k.a. Abou Ezzat)

Head of Branch 235, a.k.a. "Palestine" (Dam­

ascus) of the army's intelligence service,

which is at the centre of the army's

apparatus of repression. Directly involved

in repression of opponents. Responsible for

the torture of opponents in custody.

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5.

Major General Riad

al-Ahmed

Deputy Head of Latakia Branch of the army's

intelligence service. Responsible for the

torture and murder of opponents in custody.

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6.

Brigadier General

Abdul Salam Fajr

Mahmoud

Head of the Bab Tuma (Damascus) Branch

of the air force's intelligence service.

Responsible for the torture of opponents

in custody.

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7.

Brigadier General

Jawdat al-Ahmed

Head of the Homs Branch of the air force's

intelligence service. Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

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8.

Colonel

Qusay Mihoub

Head of the Deraa branch of the air force's

intelligence service (sent from Damascus to

Deraa at the start of demonstrations there).

Responsible for the torture of opponents in

custody.

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9.

Colonel

Suhail Al-Abdullah

Head of the Latakia Branch of the air force's

intelligence service. Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

24.7.2012

10.

Brigadier General

Khudr Khudr

Head of the Latakia branch of the General

Intelligence Directorate. Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

24.7.2012

11.

Brigadier General

Ibrahim Ma’ala

Head of branch 285 (Damascus) of the

General Intelligence Directorate (replaced

Brig. Gen. Hussam Fendi at end 2011).

Responsible for the torture of opponents

in custody.

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12.

Brigadier General

Firas Al-Hamed

Head of branch 318 (Homs) of the General

Intelligence Directorate. Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

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Name

Identifying information

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Reasons

Date of listing

13.

Brigadier General

Hussam Luqa

Since April 2012, head of the Homs branch

of the Political Security Directorate (suc­

ceeded Brig. Gen. Nasr al-Ali). Responsible

for the torture of opponents in custody.

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14.

Brigadier General

Taha Taha

Site manager of the Latakia branch of the

Political Security Directorate. Responsible

for the torture of opponents in custody.

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15.

Brigadier General

Nasr al-Ali

Since April 2012 manager of the Deraa site

of the Political Security Directorate (ex-head

of the Homs branch). Responsible for the

torture of opponents in custody.

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16.

Bassel Bilal

Police officer at Idlib central prison; has

taken part directly in acts of torture of

opponents held in Idlib central prison.

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17.

Ahmad Kafan

Police officer at Idlib central prison; has

taken part directly in acts of torture of

opponents held in Idlib central prison.

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18.

Bassam al-Misri

Police officer at Idlib central prison; has

taken part directly in acts of torture of

opponents held in Idlib central prison.

24.7.2012

19.

Ahmed al-Jarroucheh

Date of birth: 1957

Head of the foreign branch of General Intel­

ligence (branch 279). As such, responsible

for General Intelligence arrangements in

Syrian embassies. He participates directly in

the repression implemented by the Syrian

authorities against opponents and in

particular has responsibility for repression

of the Syrian opposition abroad.

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20.

Michel Kassouha

(a.k.a. Ahmed Salem;

a.k.a. Ahmed Salem

Hassan)

Date of birth: 1 February

1948

Member of the Syrian security services since

the early 1970s, he is involved in combating

opposition in France and Germany. Since

March 2006, has been responsible for

public relations of branch 273 of the

Syrian General Intelligence Directorate. A

longstanding member of the managerial

staff, he is close to General Intelligence

Directorate head Ali Mamlouk, one of the

top security officials of the regime who has

been subject to EU restrictive measures since

9 May 2011. He directly supports the

regime's repression of opponents and is

responsible inter alia for repression of the

Syrian opposition abroad.

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21.

General

Ghassan Jaoudat

Ismail

Date of birth: 1960

Place of origin: Drekish,

Tartus region.

Responsible for the missions branch of the

air force intelligence service, which, in

cooperation with the special operations

branch, manages the elite troops of the air

force intelligence service, who play an

important role in the repression conducted

by the regime. As such, Ghassan Jaoudat

Ismail is one of the military leaders directly

implementing the repression of opponents

conducted by the regime.

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22.

General Amer al-Achi

(a.k.a. Amis al Ashi;

a.k.a. Ammar Aachi;

a.k.a. Amer Ashi)

Graduate of the military school of Aleppo,

head of the intelligence branch of the air

force intelligence service (since 2012), close

to Daoud Rajah, Syrian Minister for Defence.

Through his role in the air force intelligence

service, Amer al-Achi is implicated in the

repression of the Syrian opposition.

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Name

Identifying information

Date of birth: around

1964

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Reasons

Date of listing

Close to Maher al-Assad, younger brother of

the President. Most of his career has been

spent in the Republican Guard. In 2010 he

joined the internal branch (or branch 251)

of the General Intelligence Directorate which

is responsible for combating the political

opposition. As one of its senior officers,

General Mohammed Ali is directly involved

in the repression of opponents.

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Air Force Chief of Staff since 2010.

Commands air operations against oppo­

nents.

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23.

General Mohammed

Ali Nasr (or:

Mohammed Ali

Naser)

24.

General

Issam Hallaq

25.

Ezzedine Ismael

Date of birth: middle of

the 1940s (probably

1947).

Place of birth: Bastir.

Jableh region.

Retired general, longstanding member of the

managerial staff of the air force intelligence

service, of which he became the head in the

early 2000s. Was appointed political and

security adviser to the President in 2006.

As political and security adviser to the

Syrian president, Ezzedine Ismael is

implicated in the political repression

conducted by the regime against the opposi­

tion.

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26.

Samir Joumaa (a.k.a.

Abou Sami)

Date of birth: around

1962

For almost 20 years he has been head of the

office of Mohammad Nassif Kheir Bek, one

of the main security advisers of Bashar alAssad (and officially deputy to the VicePresident, Farouk al-Sharaa). Samir Joumaa's

closeness

to

Bashar

al-Assad

and

Mohammed Nassif Kheir Bek means that

he is implicated in the policy of repression

conducted by the regime against its oppo­

nents.

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Entities

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

1.

Drex Technologies

S.A.

Incorporation date:

4 July 2000

Incorporation number:

394678

Director: Rami Makhlouf

Registered agent: Mossack

Fonseca & Co (BVI) Ltd

Drex Technologies is wholly owned by Rami

Makhlouf, who is listed under EU sanctions

for providing financial support to the Syrian

regime. Rami Makhlouf uses Drex Tech­

nologies to facilitate and manage his inter­

national financial holdings, including a

majority share in SyriaTel, which the EU

has previously listed on the grounds that it

also provides financial support to the Syrian

regime.

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2.

Cotton Marketing

Organisation

Address: Bab Al-Faraj P.O.

Box 729, Aleppo

Tél.: +96321

2239495/6/7/8

[email protected]

www.cmo.gov.sy

State-owned company. Provides financial

support to the Syrian regime.

3.

Syrian Arab Airlines

(a.k.a. SAA, a.k.a.

Syrian Air)

Al-Mohafazeh Square,

P.O. Box 417, Damascus,

Syria

Tel: +963112240774

Public company controlled by the regime.

Provides financial support for the regime.

24.7.2012

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