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OFAC sanctions a ML network linked to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, freezing its assets and blocking U.S. financial access to disrupt its shell companies and illicit funding channels

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 16, 2025

OFAC designates multiple individuals and associated entities, including Venezuelan entertainers and business fronts, for providing material support to the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organisation and laundering illicit proceeds under Executive Order 13224’s...

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...

Council of the EU and EP reach deal on new EU law to boost the fight against corruption – the first EU Anti-Corruption Directive, with harmonised offences and penalties across member states

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 11, 2025

For the first time, the new law establishes EU-wide criminal definitions for a broad range of corruption offences, including public and private sector bribery, trading in influence, misappropriation and concealment, and requires member states to implement minimum...

U.S Treasury targets Maduro-linked insiders and shipping firms in Venezuela’s oil sector, freezing assets and blocking transactions to cut off illicit financial support

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 11, 2025

OFAC designates three nephews of Maduro’s wife, a Venezuelan oil-sector official, a businessman with regime ties, and six shipping companies and associated vessels for their role in facilitating illicit oil shipments and financial support for the Maduro government....

U.S. Treasury sanctions a transnational network recruiting Colombians for Sudan’s civil war, freezing assets and blocking transactions to halt foreign conflict financing

by AdrianaAMLP | Dec 9, 2025

OFAC imposed sanctions on four individuals and four entities for their roles in fueling the civil war in Sudan, a conflict that has provoked the world’s worst ongoing humanitarian crisis.  This transnational network—primarily composed of Colombian nationals and...
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