2023-07-19 14:33:11
The financial sanctions announced on Wednesday by the Office of Foreign Assets Control notably target two of the uncles of the girl killed in Antwerp last January. Article reserved for subscribers By Laurence Wauters Published on 07/19/2023 at 16:33 Reading time: 2 min
L’Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac), or foreign assets control office in French, dependent on the United States Treasury Department, announces this Wednesday, from Washington, that it has decided to impose sanctions against three Belgians, whose identities they deliver: Othman El Ballouti, whom Ofac designates as being “one of the biggest drug traffickers and money launderers in Europe”, and two of his alleged associates, Younes El Ballouti (brother of the aforementioned) and Youssef B. All three would operate from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the names of the two El Ballouti brothers came back last January since they are the uncles of Firdaous, the 11-year-old girl who was killed in Merksem (Antwerp) during a shootout that looked like a settling of accounts. Subject to an international arrest warrant, Othman El Ballouti then thumbed his nose at Belgium by granting an interview to the Gazette of Antwerp.
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