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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-544/annex",
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  "legislation": "eur/2012/544",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Regulation 2012/544/CFSP of 25 June 2012 implementing Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) No 36/2012 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-544",
  "path": "annex",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PERSON AND ENTITIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1",
  "text": "Persons\nName\nIdentifying information\nReasons\nDate of listing\n1.\nBouthaina Shaaban\n(a.k.a. Buthaina Shaaban)\nBorn 1953 in Homs, Syria\nPolitical and Media Advisor to the President since July 2008 and as such associated with the violent crackdown on the population.\n26.6.2012\nEntities\nName\nIdentifying information\nReasons\nDate of listing\n1.\nMinistry of Defence\nAddress: Umayyad Square, Damascus\nTelephone: +963-11-7770700\nSyrian government branch directly involved in repression.\n26.6.2012\n2.\nMinistry of Interior\nAddress: Merjeh Square, Damascus\nTelephone: +963-11-2219400, +963-11-2219401, +963-11-2220220, +963-11-2210404\nSyrian government branch directly involved in repression.\n26.6.2012\n3.\nSyrian National Security Bureau\nSyrian government branch and element of the Syrian Ba'ath Party. Directly involved in repression. It directed Syrian security forces to use extreme force against demonstrators.\n26.6.2012\n4.\nSyria International Islamic Bank (SIIB)\n(a.k.a.: Syrian International Islamic Bank; a.k.a. SIIB)\nLocation: Syria International Islamic Bank Building, Main Highway Road, Al Mazzeh Area, P.O. Box 35494, Damascus, Syria\nAlt. Location: P.O. Box 35494, Mezza'h Vellat Sharqia'h, beside the Consulate of Saudi Arabia, Damascus, Syria\nSIIB has acted as a front for the Commercial Bank of Syria, which has allowed that bank to circumvent sanctions imposed on it by the EU. From 2011 to 2012, SIIB surreptitiously facilitated financing worth almost $150 million on behalf of the Commercial Bank of Syria. Financial arrangements that were purportedly made by SIIB were actually made by the Commercial Bank of Syria.\nIn addition to working with the Commercial Bank of Syria to circumvent sanctions, in 2012, SIIB facilitated several substantial payments for the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank, another bank already designated by the EU.\nIn these ways, SIIB has contributed to providing financial support to the Syrian regime.\n26.6.2012\n5.\nGeneral Organisation of Radio and TV\n(a.k.a. Syrian Directorate General of Radio & Television Est; a.k.a. General Radio and Television Corporation; a.k.a. Radio and Television Corporation; a.k.a. GORT)\nAddress: Al Oumaween Square, P.O. Box 250, Damascus, Syria.\nTelephone (963 11) 223 4930\nState-run agency subordinate to Syria’s Ministry of Information and as such supports and promotes its information policy. It is responsible for operating Syria’s state-owned television channels, two terrestrial and one satellite, as well as government radio stations. The GORT has incited violence against the civilian population in Syria, serving as a propaganda instrument for the Assad regime and spreading disinformation.\n26.6.2012\n6.\nSyrian Company for Oil Transport\n(a.k.a. Syrian Crude Oil Transportation Company; a.k.a. “SCOT”; a.k.a. “SCOTRACO”\nBanias Industrial Area, Latakia Entrance Way, P.O. Box 13, Banias, Syria; Website www.scot-syria.com; Email scot50@scn-net.org\nSyrian state owned oil company. Provides financial support to the regime.\n26.6.2012",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/544/annex",
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