UNSC Sanctions Committee allows Rs 1.5 lakh monthly expense for Lakhvi

TIL Desk/World/UN/ The UN Security Council’s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee has given a go-ahead for a monthly payment of Pakistani Rupees 1.5 lakh for Mumbai terror attack plotter Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a proscribed UN terrorist, to meet his expenses.

The Sanctions Committee this week approved the payment that will include expenses of about Rs 45,000 for medicines, food (Rs 50,000), public utility charges (Rs 20,000), lawyer fees (Rs 20,000) and transportation (Rs 15,000) to be accessed monthly from Lakhvi’s bank account, which has been frozen since he is a listed terrorist, sources said.

Lakhvi, 60, was designated as a global terrorist by the UN in December 2008 for being associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al-Qaeda and for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” both entities.

Proscribed terrorists and entities are subject to an assets freeze, wherein all states are required to freeze funds and other financial assets or economic resources of designated individuals and entities, a travel ban that prevents the entry into or transit through nations’ territories by the designated individuals and an arms embargo.