The United States of America government has placed a U$5million bounty on the leader of Allied Democratic Front, ADF (Daesch-RDC).
Anyone who provides information vital for the arrest of Seka Musa Baluku will recieve a reward of U$5million from the US government according to the United States Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program.
“Under the leadership of Seka Musa Baluku, Daesch-DRC has engaged in brutal violence against Congolese citizens and regional military forces in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in eastern DRC. Daesch-DRC, also known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and Madina in Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen, among other names, killed more than 849 civilians in 2020 alone, according to the United Nations Security Council,” explains the US State Department.
Meanwhile, in March 2021, the US State Department had designated Baluku a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). Daesch-DRC has also been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and SDGT.
“As a result of these designations, among other consequences, all assets and real property interests of the designated persons that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States are blocked and U.S. citizens are generally prohibited from transacting with them. Foreign financial institutions that knowingly conduct or facilitate any material transaction on behalf of Baluku or Daesch-DRC could be subject to U.S. sanctions relating to correspondent accounts or sweepstakes accounts,” the State Department adds. .
Furthermore, it is a crime to deliberately provide material support or resources to Daesch-RDC or to attempt to do so or to conspire for the same purpose.
The ADF was previously sanctioned by the US Treasury Department and the United Nations under the UN Security Council’s DRC sanctions regime in 2014 for their violence and atrocities.
The U.S. Treasury Department also sanctioned Baluku and five other ADF members in 2019 under the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Program for their role in serious human rights abuses.
