ABUBAKAR SWALLEH

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID

AQD0388

OFSI group ID

16974

Designation type

Individual

Date designated

16 June 2025

Last updated

18 August 2026

Regimes

• Isil (Da'esh) and Al-Qaeda (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Designation sources

• UN

Sanctions imposed

• Asset freeze
• Arms embargo
• Travel Ban

Official reasons

• Abubakar Swalleh was listed on [Date] pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 5 of resolution 2734 (2024) as being associated with ISIL or Al-Qaida for 'participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of' Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115) and for 'recruiting for Al-Qaida, ISIL, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof' and for 'otherwise supporting acts or activities of Al-Qaida, ISIL, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof'.

Other information

• Abubakar Swalleh provides financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to, or in support of, ISIL (listed as Al-Qaida in Iraq (QDe.115). He acted, since 2018, as an ISIL facilitator who provides financial and logistic support including recruitment for ISIL in East and Southern Africa. Phone number: +963936016952. Gender: Male. Photo available for inclusion in the INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-wework/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Individuals#2025-47413

Addresses

• Lines: Luzira Prison
• Lines: Luzira
• Lines: Kampala
• Lines: Uganda