RIYADH: Saudi Arabia blacklisted on Thursday 12 people for supporting and financing Hezbollah’s activities in the Middle East, according to the Ministry of Interior.

The people were described as “leaders and officials” from Hezbollah, which was declared a terrorist group by the Saudi government in March last year. The ministry included the aliases and birthplaces and dates of some of the people.

The Kingdom also froze the assets of “entities acting as investment arms for activities of the party’s malicious activities beyond the borders of Lebanon,” with citizens banned from having dealings with them, according to a ministry statement carried by the SPA.

The ministry stated that it would “continue to fight against Hezbollah’s terrorist activities with all available means.” It said that Hezbollah was “spreading chaos and instability, launching terrorist attacks and practicing criminal and illegal activities around the world.”

The people include Ali Mousa Daqduq Al-Moussawi, known by several aliases and several birth dates ranging from September 1969 to March 1972. He is listed as a Lebanese national.

Another person is Mohammed Kawtharani, known as Mohammed Al-Kawtharani or Jafar Al-Kawtharani, a Lebanese and Iraqi citizen with dates of birth listed including 1945, 1959, 1961, and born in Najaf, Iraq.

Another person blacklisted is Muhammad Yusuf Ahmed Mansour also known Sami Hani Shehab, Salem Basim Sami, Jamal Hani Halawi, Mohammed Yusuf Mansour Sami Shehab, Sami Shehab, and Hani Halawi. He has listed his birth date as September 1970, January 1974, 1980, and place of birth Bint Jubail, Lebanon.

Others on the ministry’s list are Adham Tabaja and his business tourism company and its subsidiaries; Qasim Hajij; Hussein Ali Faour and his car care center; Mustafa Badr Eddin; Ibrahim Aqil; Fouad Shukr; Abdel Nour Al-Shaalan; Mohamed Najib Karim; and Mohammed Salman Fawaz.

According to reports, the man named Mustafa Badr Eddin may be the same person accused by a UN tribunal in 2005 of the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri and is being tried in absentia. It was not immediately clear, however, if the Saudi designation referred to the same man. In May, Saudi Arabia designated two senior officials of Hezbollah as terrorists, accusing them of involvement in spreading “chaos and instability.”