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OFAC targets 5 senior Nicaraguan officials, freezing their U.S. assets and striking at the regime’s financial, labor, communications, and military apparatus used to repress political opponents

by AdrianaAMLP | Feb 26, 2026

Action targets senior figures leading Nicaragua’s financial-intelligence, telecommunications, labour and military-intelligence bodies for supporting the regime’s campaign against political opponents and civil society. The designations block any property or interests...

Council of the EU decides to prohibit any transfer of immobilised Russian central-bank assets back to Russia to prevent the Kremlin from regaining access to frozen funds

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 12, 2025

The decision confirms that EU member states must not release, return or otherwise transfer immobilised Central Bank of Russia assets held in their jurisdictions, reinforcing restrictive measures adopted in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. It...

OFAC imposes a $7.1M penalty on Gracetown Inc. for repeatedly violating U.S. Russia-related sanctions and failing to report blocked assets tied to a sanctioned Russian oligarch

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 4, 2025

OFAC finds that Gracetown continued to receive payments on behalf of a company ultimately owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — despite explicit notice that conducting such transactions was prohibited — and also failed to timely report blocked assets...

Global Witness exposes a coordinated wave of bot-like accounts and deceptive news sites trying to whitewash a sanctioned mining tycoon, undermining sanctions and DRC’s anti-corruption efforts

by AdrianaAMLP | Nov 27, 2025

Global Witness finds that at least 40 social-media accounts created in February 2025, along with multiple Congolese news websites, propagated nearly identical messages claiming that a recent arbitration “exonerated” Gertler — despite the arbitration being a private...

NCA exposes a billion-dollar Russian ML network that allegedly bought a Lithuanian bank to funnel war-funding, revealing a sophisticated web of shell firms, corrupt intermediaries and global illicit finance

by AdrianaAMLP | Nov 21, 2025

Through Operation Destabilise, the NCA uncovers a sprawling criminal network operating across at least 28 UK cities that funnels cash from drugs, firearms, and people-smuggling into cryptocurrency, and which uses a bank acquisition in Kyrgyzstan to channel funds to...

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OFAC targets 5 senior Nicaraguan officials, freezing their U.S. assets and striking at the regime’s financial, labor, communications, and military apparatus used to repress political opponents

Council of the EU decides to prohibit any transfer of immobilised Russian central-bank assets back to Russia to prevent the Kremlin from regaining access to frozen funds

OFAC imposes a $7.1M penalty on Gracetown Inc. for repeatedly violating U.S. Russia-related sanctions and failing to report blocked assets tied to a sanctioned Russian oligarch

Global Witness exposes a coordinated wave of bot-like accounts and deceptive news sites trying to whitewash a sanctioned mining tycoon, undermining sanctions and DRC’s anti-corruption efforts

NCA exposes a billion-dollar Russian ML network that allegedly bought a Lithuanian bank to funnel war-funding, revealing a sophisticated web of shell firms, corrupt intermediaries and global illicit finance

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