(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The US on Wednesday added Aliaskhab Kebekov, a Russian citizen whose militant group pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, to its terror list, and banned all transactions with him by Americans.
Kebekov leads the Caucasus Emirate, a group the US has already designated as a terrorist entity, and which operates "primarily in the Russian North Caucasus," a Department of State press release affirmed.
"In the summer of 2014, Kebekov issued a video statement proclaiming the Caucasus Emirate's 'structural subordination' to Al-Qaeda and noted his group's readiness to execute orders and instructions from Al-Qaeda's leaders," the statement said.
"In 2013, Caucasus regional police sources reported that Kebekov ordered the killing of Sheikh Said-Afandi Chirkeyskiy, a prominent moderate religious leader in the Republic of Dagestan, also in the North Caucasus region of Russia, who was ideologically opposed to the Caucasus Emirate," the statement revealed.
Now that Kebekov is on the US terror list, "all property subject to US jurisdiction in which Kebekov has any interest is blocked, and US persons are prohibited from engaging in transactions with him or to his benefit." Kebekov is also listed by the UN, which "requires all member states to implement an assets freeze, a travel ban, and an arms embargo against Kebekov," the statement said.
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