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19 Jan 2012, 8:15 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of Guatemalan national Marllory Dadiana Chacon Rossell and seven other individuals and entities connected to Chacon Rossell’s drug trafficking and money laundering organization as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs). [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 2:36 pm
Video of Remarks President J Biden 2-22-2222 CSPANWith remarkable speed, President Biden  has responded to the recent Russian military and diplomatic actions in Ukraine. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 10:10 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of Griselda Lopez Perez, a wife of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman Loera, who plays a key role in his drug trafficking organization. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 9:59 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
We will continue to target the Iranian regime and specifically the IRGC as it attempts to continue its nefarious infiltration of the Iranian economy,” said Adam Szubin, Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 4:04 am by Broc Romanek
They will have an obligation to determine whether they or any affiliates have knowingly: - engaged in any sanctionable activity under the ISA; - engaged in any activities targeted by the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations ("IFSR"); - engaged in the transfer of goods or technologies or the provision of services to Iran or Iranian parties to commit serious human rights abuses against the people of Iran; or - conducted transactions with blocked persons ("Specially Designated… [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 8:06 am by Ed Stein
(The Treasury Department briefly discussed this model of sanctions in footnote 22 of some recent Iran guidance.) [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 1:10 pm by Alexandra Haris
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) got involved by identifying Peralta and his organization as “significant narcotics traffickers” pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the “Kingpin Act”). [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 1:10 pm by Alexandra Haris
Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) got involved by identifying Peralta and his organization as “significant narcotics traffickers” pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the “Kingpin Act”). [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 9:12 pm by Nabil Shaikh
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that uses the Ethereum blockchain, concluding that it has been used in the laundering of over $7 billion in virtual currency since 2019. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 5:08 pm by Jeralyn
Put more simply: One of the agencies in the Treasury Department is OFAC, the Office of Foreign Asset Control. [read post]
16 May 2012, 12:34 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim “Tiger” Memon as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for their roles as part of a criminal organization run by Dawood Ibrahim, known as “D Company. [read post]
Department of Treasury On May 10, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen presented the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Annual Report before the Senate Banking Committee about the need for sensible stablecoin legislation (we have previously discussed the President’s Working Group (PWG) report on stablecoins here and here). [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 6:43 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Douglas McNabb and other members of the U.S. law firm practice and write and/or report extensively on matters involving Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition Defense, OFAC SDN Sanctions Removal, International Criminal Court Defense, and US Seizure of Non-Resident, Foreign-Owned Assets. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 8:15 am by Doug Cornelius
The EO implements last year’s Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (the Global Magnitsky Act), which authorized the president to impose sanctions against human rights abusers and those who facilitate government corruption.[1] The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which will administer the EO, also added 15 individuals and 37 entities to its Specially Designated Nationals and… [read post]
26 May 2023, 6:15 am by Edgar Chen
In 2020, the proposal was vetted by the federal interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which is comprised of representatives from 16 U.S. departments and agencies, including Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 8:14 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of a key Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant, Martin Guadencio Avendano Ojeda, his two brothers and two companies located in Mexico pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 12:52 pm by Alvaro Marañon, Benjamin Wittes
  In October 2020, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory to “highlight the sanctions risks associated with ransomware payments related to malicious cyber-enable activities. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 5:44 am by Kevin LaCroix
Treasury and the FDIC in the wake of the SVB failure may have averted a worse crisis. [read post]