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OFAC sanctions updates, trade enforcement, and export control actions
OFAC designates VTB Bank under Iran authorities, grounds Iranian airlines, moves specific licenses to presumption of denial, and strikes Hizballah and cyber-scam networks — TIJ’s weekly sanctions and trade enforcement…
OFAC designates Türkiye's Golden Global Bank under Operation Economic Outcast, plus new Cuba designations, Venezuela minerals licenses, a quiet Russia delisting, BIS enforcement, and CFIUS's annual report — TIJ's weekly…
Treasury opens a whole-of-government sanctions campaign against Iran with five new sectoral determinations and nearly 60 designations; Syria comes off the State Sponsor of Terrorism list; BIS settles a Russia…
Operation Economic Outcast opens against Iran, Syria comes off the terror-sponsor list, and OFAC targets Hizballah cash couriers, Ecuadorian cocaine logistics, Cuban state firms, and ICC officials — TIJ's weekly…
A quiet week for new designations was a busy one for enforcement: OFAC settled an Iran transshipment case with Rice Lake Weighing Systems, BIS posted a settlement with Plexon over…
OFAC hits Iranian crypto exchanges and shadow banks, targets the IRGC's Strait of Hormuz 'insurance' racket, sanctions Cuba's arms importers, extends the Citgo shield, and delists Fly Baghdad — plus…
OFAC hit 50+ targets in Iranian tycoon Shamkhani's oil-shipping network and sanctioned an IRGC procurement ring, while DOJ's trade-fraud task force topped $1 billion and Commerce eased export controls on…
OFAC hit an Iranian regime financier and shadow exchange houses, sanctioned Brazil's PCC and cartel fuel-smuggling networks, and BIS fined Bosch ~$47.6M over Huawei shipments.
OFAC blacklisted a Brazilian PCC money-laundering ring and widened its Prince Group scam crackdown, while sanctioning networks tied to Sudan, Cuba and DRC conflict gold — even as a modernization…
OFAC's June 23–29 actions struck the Prince Group cyber-scam syndicate, Cuban state banks, Sudan war-profiteering networks, and Rwandan gold refiners tied to M23, alongside new BIS and tariff measures.