Terror organization: Hamas;

Status: Hamas financial officer;

Role: Sudan-based Hamas financier who has managed numerous companies in Hamas’s investment portfolio and was previously involved in the transfer of almost $20 million to Hamas;

Location: Sudan;

Address: Africa Street, Khartoum 12290, Sudan;

Born: 28 Aug 1955;

Known Also As: Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Mohamed Khair; HAMZA, Abd al-Basit; HAMZA, Abdelbasit;

National ID No.: 101 0015 9792 (Sudan)

Activities:

Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Mohamed Khair is a Sudan-based Hamas financier who has managed numerous companies in Hamas’s investment portfolio. He has longstanding financing ties to Al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden linked companies in Sudan.

He was previously involved in the transfer of almost $20 million to Hamas, including funds sent directly to senior Hamas financial officer and U.S.-designated Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) Mahir Jawad Yunis Salah.

Hamza’s money-laundering and revenue generating network for Hamas includes Sudan-based Al Rowad Real Estate Development, Zawaya Group for Development and Investment Co. LTD, and Larrycom for Investment Company, as well as Spain-based Zawaya Group for Development Investment Sociedad Limitada. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has designated all four entities as SDGTs.

Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Mohamed Khair (Hamza) is a Sudan-based Hamas financier who has managed numerous companies in Hamas’s investment portfolio and was previously involved in the transfer of almost $20 million to Hamas, including funds sent directly to Mahir Jawad Yunis Salah, a senior Hamas financial officer, whom OFAC designated as an SDGT on September 10, 2015. Hamza has facilitated funds for Hamas through a network of large companies in Sudan. The network used by Hamza to launder money and generate revenue for Hamas includes Sudan-based Al Rowad Real Estate Development, which OFAC designated as an SDGT in OFAC’s May 24, 2022 sanctions action targeting Hamas’s investment portfolio. Hamza also has longstanding ties to terrorism financing, including historic ties to al-Qa’ida and Usama bin Laden-linked companies in Sudan.

Hamza is designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Hamas