The United States has imposed sanctions on leaders of the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces. On Wednesday, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Ali Yagoub Gibril and Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed of the RSF pursuant to Executive Order 14098. The EO authorizes the government to seize assets of persons and...
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US Treasury Blocks Assets of Hezbollah Financial Backer’s Accomplices in Sanctions Avoidance
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has blocked all American property interests of several persons who were found helping Hassan Moukalled and his money-changer company CTEX Exchange avoid U.S. sanctions for supporting the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control identified two of Moukalled’s sons, Firas and Rayyan, as among his...
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US Treasury Sanctions Iran-Affiliated Company Supplying Drones to Russia
Sahara Thunder, a company identified as a front for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, faces sanctions in the United States for facilitating the design, development, manufacture and sale of drones in support of Russia’s war in Europe. According to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Russian government...
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US Sanctions Iran-Based Al-Ashtar Brigades Members
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, in coordination with Bahrain, has designated four Iran-based Al-Ashtar Brigades members. Sanctions were imposed on Hussein Ahmad ‘Abdallah Ahmad Hussein Al-Dammami, Ali Abdulnabi Ahmed Ebrahim M Alshofa, Hasan Ahmed Radhi Husain Sarhan and Isa Saleh Isa Mohamed Salman for supporting AAB, including by facilitating lethal,...
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US Sanctions Russia-Based Companies That Operate Fake News Websites
The United States has imposed new sanctions against entities linked to Russia’s efforts to influence elections around the world. According to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Russia-based companies Social Design Agency and Company Group Structura have been orchestrating, on behalf of the Russian Presidential Administration, online operations designed to deceive and...
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US Sanctions UAE-Based Shipper Oceanlink Maritime Over Ties With Iran
The United States has issued a new round of sanctions targeting an organization involved in shipping commodities on behalf of Iran‘s General Staff of the Armed Forces and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics. According to a press release, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is blocking the use of 13...
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Treasury Adds Four Russian Elites, Business Association to Sanctioned Entities
The Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on four members of the Russian elite and a Moscow-based business organization in relation to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The move will lead to the freezing of the sanctioned parties’ assets within the U.S., along with prohibiting all transactions involving their assets by U.S. individuals unless...
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US Sanctions Companies Over Connections to Russia-North Korea Arms Deal
The Department of the Treasury has slapped sanctions on three entities that it said were tied to arms trading between Russia and North Korea. In a notice issued on Wednesday, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Limited Liability Company Verus, Versor S.R.O. and Defense Engineering Limited Liability Partnership pursuant to Executive Order 13551,...
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US Expands Sanctions Against Military-Run Myanmar, Adds Jet Fuel Supply Curbs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced sanctions against companies and individuals helping the jet fuel procurement of Myanmar’s military junta on the back of reports that it has been launching deadly airstrikes on civilian crowds. The sanctions issued Wednesday by the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control named Shoon Energy Pte Ltd, PEI Energy...
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US Sanctions Fundraisers of North Korea Weapons Program
The United States has added to its sanctions list two individuals and one Russian company for their involvement in generating funds for North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed the sanctions on Moscow-based company Intellekt, Russian national Sergey Mikhaylovich Kozlov...