Division (4) Rahat Ltd . ( alias (a) Rahat Trading Company, (b) Haji Muhammad Qasim Sarafi, (c) New Chagai Trading, (d) Musa Kalim Hawala).F1
United Kingdom
Address : (a) Branch Office 1: Room number 33, 5th Floor, Sarafi Market, Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan , (b) Branch Office 2: Shop number 4, Azizi Bank, Haji Muhammad Isa Market, Wesh, Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan , (c) Branch Office 3: Safaar Bazaar, Garmser District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (d) Branch Office 4: Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (e) Branch Office 5: Gereshk District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, (f) Branch Office 6: Zaranj District, Nimroz Province, Afghanistan, (g) Branch Office 7: (i) Dr. Barno Road, Quetta, Pakistan, (ii) Haji Mohammed Plaza, Tol Aram Road, near Jamaluddin Afghani Road, Quetta, Pakistan, (iii) Kandahari Bazaar, Quetta, Pakistan, (h) Branch Office 8: Chaman, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan, (i) Branch Office 9: Chaghi Bazaar, Chaghi, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan, (j) Branch Office 10: Zahedan, Zabol Province, Iran. Date of UN designation : 21.11.2012 .
Other information : Rahat Ltd. was used by Taliban leadership to transfer funds originating from external donors and narcotics trafficking to finance Taliban activity as of 2011 and 2012. Owned by Mohammed Qasim Mir Wali Khudai Rahim. Also associated Mohammad Naim Barich Khudaidad. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/une/5282195
Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:
Rahat Ltd. is a hawala network owned by Mohammed Qasim Mir Wali Khudai Rahim, comprising branches across Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, that participates in the financing and facilitation of the Taliban insurgency.
In 2011 and 2012, Taliban senior figures regularly used the different branches of Rahat Ltd. to store and transfer funds originating from external donors and narcotics trafficking.
This specifically includes facilitation of substantial funds on behalf of a Taliban Shadow Provincial Governor laundered through Rahat Ltd. In 2011 and 2012, on several occasions, Taliban senior figures oversaw transfers and transactions through Rahat Ltd. of hundreds of thousands of United States dollars in funding from the Gulf region and Iran which were intended to finance insurgent activities of the Taliban.
Taliban senior figures have personally interacted with Rahat Ltd. branch managers, frequented Rahat Ltd. branches and used Rahat Ltd. to receive, store and send funds to support insurgent operations inside Afghanistan. Recently, the Taliban Shadow Provincial Governor for Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Mohammad Naim Barich, also known as Mullah Naim Barich, provided funds through Rahat Ltd. for subordinate commanders to plan and conduct insurgent operations in southern Afghanistan. These operations directly threaten the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan.
Rahat Ltd. provides financial services to Taliban-affiliated narcotics networks in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region through its branch managers' direct involvement in narcotics trafficking and their close association with senior figures within these narcotics networks.