Division (3) Amir Abdullah ( alias Amir Abdullah Sahib).F1

Grounds for listing: Former Kandahar Province Deputy Taliban Governor. Address: Karachi, Pakistan. Date of birth : Approximately 1972. Place of birth: Paktika Province, Afghanistan. Nationality: Afghan. Date of UN designation: 20.7.2010 .

Other information: Has travelled to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the United Arab Emirates to raise funds for the Taliban. Treasurer to Abdul Ghani Baradar Abdul Ahmad Turk. Believed to be in Afghanistan/Pakistan border area. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/1621271

Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:

Amir Abdullah has served as treasurer to senior Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and was the former deputy to the Taliban governor of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Amir Abdullah has travelled to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Libya and the United Arab Emirates to raise funds for the Taliban. He has also facilitated communications for Taliban leadership and coordinated high-level meetings at the guesthouse of his residence in Pakistan. Abdullah helped many senior Taliban members who fled Afghanistan in 2001 to settle in Pakistan.