Division (126) Mohammed Qasim Mir Wali Khudai Rahim ( alias (a) Muhammad Qasim, (b) Abdul Salam).F1
United Kingdom
Title: Haji. Date of birth: Between 1975 and 1976. Place of birth: (a) Minar village, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (b) Darweshan Village, Garmser District, Helmand Province. Nationality: Afghan. National identification No: (a) Afghan national identification card (tazkira) number 57388 issued in Lashkar Gah District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (b) Residential card number 665, Ayno Maina, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Address: (a) Wesh, Spin Boldak District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, (b) Safaar Bazaar, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (c) Room number 33, 5th Floor Sarafi Market, Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan . Date of UN designation: 21.11.2012 .
Other information: Owner of Rahat Ltd. Involved in the supply of weapons for Taliban, including improvised explosive devices (IED). Arrested in 2012 and in custody in Afghanistan as of January 2013. Associated with Rahat Ltd.. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/5041285
Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:
Mohammed Qasim Mir Wali Khudai Rahim is the owner of Rahat Ltd., which has branches across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran and participates in the financing and facilitation of the Taliban insurgency.
Taliban senior figures have personally met Qasim and Rahat Ltd. branch managers. They have also frequented Rahat Ltd. branches and used Qasim's services to receive, store and send funds to support both their insurgent operations inside Afghanistan and the Taliban's narcotics fundraising activities.During a meeting with Taliban senior figures in 2011, Qasim demonstrated his witting complicity in handling Taliban funding through Rahat Ltd. branches in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Qasim has been personally associated with Taliban insurgent commanders inside Afghanistan and networks involved in the supply of weapons including improvised explosive devices (IED).
Qasim has used Rahat Ltd. to provide financial services to his own and others' narcotics networks which are located in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region and affiliated to the Taliban.