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US Treasury sanctions Cambodian tycoon and businesses linked to human trafficking and forced labor in furtherance of cyber and virtual currency scams

Action targets Cambodian businessman Ly Yong Phat (Ly), his conglomerate L.Y.P. Group Co., LTD (L.Y.P. Group), and O‑Smach Resort for their role in serious human rights abuse related to the treatment of trafficked workers subjected to forced labor in online scam centers.

US Treasury targets Venezuelan officials aligned with Nicolas Maduro in response to electoral fraud

16 Maduro-aligned officials designated, who obstructed a competitive and inclusive presidential election process in Venezuela and violated the civil and human rights of the people.

US DoJ has seized an aircraft used for violating export control and sanctions laws

The U.S. seized a US $13 million aircraft allegedly smuggled for violating export controls and sanctions. Officials stressed that no aircraft for sanctioned Venezuelan figures can escape enforcement. The seizure aided by Dominican authorities, highlights the US government’s commitment to enforcing sanctions and reclaiming illegal assets…

OFSI updates the UK financial sanctions guidance and webinars to help understand how to comply with UK financial sanctions

Financial sanctions come in many forms as they are developed in response to a given situation. The most common types of financial sanctions used in recent years are: Targeted asset freezes: these apply to named individuals and entities restricting access to funds and economic resources. Someone subject to an asset freeze in the UK will be listed on OFSI’s Consolidated list…

US Treasury targets oil and LPG smuggling network that generates millions in revenue for Hizballah

The network, comprised of Lebanese businessmen and companies and overseen by a senior leader of Hizballah’s finance team, has facilitated dozens of LPG shipments to the Government of Syria and channeled the profits to Hizballah.

BBC: The UK has suspended all flights to Iran as allied nations intensify sanctions

The US, UK, France, and Germany have imposed new sanctions on Iran for supplying ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine. These sanctions include restrictions on Iran Air’s flights to the UK and Europe as well as travel bans and asset freezes on Iranians linked to military support for Russia. US Secretary of State during his visit to London revealed that Iranian-trained Russian forces could deploy short-range ballistic missiles against Ukraine…

US Treasury designates actors facilitating Iran’s transfer of lethal aid to Russia

Targets ten individuals and six entities based in Iran and Russia and identifies four vessels as blocked property that are enabling Iran’s delivery of weapons components and weapons systems, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and close-range ballistic missiles (CRBMs), to Russia.

OFSI issues an advisory to stakeholders on compliance risks with UK and UN sanctions concerning North Korean workers fraudulently obtaining remote IT jobs to support regime activities

This advisory provides detailed information on DPRK IT workers as well as associated red flags and mitigations to assist stakeholders in better understanding and protecting against this threat…

OFAC issued an alert to warn foreign jurisdictions and FIs about Russia’s attempts to evade sanctions by opening new overseas branches and subsidiaries of Russian FIs

Foreign regulators and financial institutions should be cautious about the establishment of, or any dealings with, new overseas branches or subsidiaries of Russian financial institutions, including new branches or subsidiaries of Russian financial institutions that are not themselves sanctioned.

US DoC tightens export controls, targeting illicit procurement networks that supply equipment to support the Russian war machine

The key actions include: Further tightening controls on Russia by expanding the scope of the Russia/Belarus Military End User (MEU) and Procurement Foreign Direct Product (FDP) rule and imposing additional license requirements on operation software for computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools; Cutting off exports to foreign companies on the BIS Entity List; applying the expanded Russia/Belarus MEU and Procurement FDP rule to dozens of entities outside Russia…

EC updates FAQs on asset freeze and prohibition to make funds and economic resources available

The ‘freezing of funds’ means preventing any move, transfer, alteration, use of, access to, or dealing with funds in any way that would result in any change in their volume, amount, location, ownership, possession, character, destination or any other change that would enable the funds to be used. Entities are now considered owned by listed persons if their combined ownership is 50% or more…

US DoJ announces charges against senior leaders of Hamas, over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly attack in southern Israel

The Justice Department announced the unsealing of terrorism, murder conspiracy, and sanctions-evasion charges against six senior leaders of Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

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