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The targeted entities include Dubai-based fintech Haleel Commodities LLC with branches and subsidiaries in Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Cyprus.
UAE-based Qemat Al Najah General Trading, which served "as an important money laundering node in the network", and a Kenyan bus company that supported Al-Shabaab's logistics were also slapped with sanctions.