US Tsy's OFAC Designates 4 Linked To Zimbabwe's Mugabe Regime
The designations Tuesday by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, included Zimbabwean businessman Muller Conrad Rautenbach, Thai businesswoman Nalinee Joy Taveesin and Malaysian eurologist Mahmood Awang Kechik. OFAC also named John Bredenkamp, whom the agency referred to as a well-known Mugabe insider.
"The financial and logistical support they have provided to the regime has enabled Robert Mugabe to pursue policies that seriously undermine democratic processes and institutions in Zimbabwe," OFAC said.
As a result of Treasury's action, any of their assets within U.S. jurisdiction must be frozen.
"The Mugabe regime continues to resist the call of the Zimbabwean people to loosen its corrupt and violent hold on power," OFAC Director Adam J. Szubin said. "The United States supports the people of Zimbabwe in their struggle to achieve a political and economic system built on fairness and transparency rather than patronage and self-dealing."
-By Jeff Bater, Dow Jones Newswires; 202 862 9249; jeff.bater@dowjones.com
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November 25, 2008 12:59 ET (17:59 GMT)
Publié le 25 novembre 2008 Copyright © 2008 Dowjones
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