UK adds Qatari financier to terror sanctions list
LONDON - The British government has banned a Qatari financier it accuses of funding al-Qaeda from doing business in the UK.
The Treasury says Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nuaymi has been added to a financial sanctions list. The move means British banks are barred from dealing with him and are required to freeze his assets.
The British move comes 10 months after US authorities added al-Nuayami to a list of "Specially Designated Global Terrorists" and accused him of providing financial support to groups including al-Qaeda and Somalia-based al Shabaab. The US Treasury said that for a time he was transferring more than $2 million a month to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
