Multilateral Policy

Directorate
Responsible Business Team
King Charles Street
London, SW1A 2AH

020 7008 1500

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Executive Director, ICOCA,

By Email:

22 July 2020

Dear

SALADIN SECURITY LTD

The UN Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures Branch has written to the UK
Government regarding the alleged failure of the UK to investigate the role of Keenie
Meenie Services (KMS) in violations of international humanitarian law, and violence
and abuses of international human rights law allegedly committed during the conflict
in Sri Lanka between 1984-1988. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is
preparing a response to the UN letter. The UN has also written to the Government of
Sri Lanka and Saladin Security Ltd (SSL) as it notes that a former KMS Director is
now an active Director of SSL.

In turn, we have noted that SSL is a member of both ICOCA and the Special
Interests Group, SCEG. Given this, we would like to better understand SSL’s
ICOCA membership status and the due diligence processes applied to SSL’s ICOCA
membership application and to membership applications more broadly. We would
be grateful if you could set this out along with details of any assurances Saladin may
have provided to ICOCA at the time of its application or since. It would also be
helpful for your response to also include the status of SSL’s ICOCA and third party
certification and the details of any review ICOCA may have conducted into SSL’s
membership of ICOCA. More generally, it would be helpful to set out ICOCA’s
processes for reviewing the certification status of its members and any other
information you feel would be useful to highlight.

We have discussed this informally and you suggested it would be appropriate to

write to allow a more considered response from ICOCA. I hope that this letter is
helpful in this regard and I look forward to your response. It would be helpful to
receive this by 31 August.

Yours ever,

Head, Responsible Business Team

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