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In November 2001, the Bush administration froze the assets of Al-Barakat, a Somali remittance hawala company used primarily by a large amount of Somalian immigrants.
Many of its agents in several countries were initially arrested, though later freed after no concrete evidence against them was found.
In August 2006 the last Al-Barakat representatives were taken off the U. S. terror list, though some assets remain frozen.
In October 2009, the Swedish branch of Al-Barakat was removed from the United Nations ' list of terrorist organizations ; the company had been on the list for the past eight years, and had had its bank account funds frozen.
According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.
However, it has been suggested that the recent change in the European Union's position regarding the many organizations " that have been too easily included in the UN terror list " might have influenced the UN's position.
Al-Barakat is now able again to access its bank account funds.

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