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OFAC issues Sanctions Guidance for the Maritime Shipping Industry
It highlights 1) Deceptive Practices: Maritime stakeholders should be vigilant for fraudulent activities like falsified shipping documentation, manipulated vessel data, and hidden ownership structures that attempt to disguise violations. 2) Inadvertent Engagement with SDNs: U.S. and non-U.S. entities must avoid inadvertent dealings with SDNs, addressing red flags…
UK Foreign Secretary cracks down on dirty money with fresh sanctions
David Lammy, the UK Foreign Secretary, has frozen over £100 million in illicit assets and dismantled extensive networks used by kleptocrats to hide wealth embezzled from their nations. The sanctions also target the kleptocrats’ associates, including friends, family members, and facilitators who aided in siphoning resources from their home countries…
US Treasury targets Gulf Cartel for its involvement in illegal activities such as unregulated fishing, human smuggling, and narcotics trafficking
The action highlights how transnational criminal organizations like the Gulf Cartel rely on a variety of illicit schemes like IUU fishing to fund their operations, along with narcotics trafficking and human smuggling,” said Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley T. Smith. “Treasury, as part of a whole-of-government approach to combatting transnational criminal organizations, remains committed to disrupting these networks and restricting these groups’ ability to profit from these activities…
OFAC issues new and amended FAQs regarding compliance within the insurance industry
OFAC amended FAQs 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 102, 103 and 104 as part of its ongoing process of reviewing published guidance to ensure information remains current. OFAC also issued new FAQs 1199 and 1200 that discuss scenarios under which insurance companies can pay claims under a policy issued to a blocked person or losses caused by a blocked person.
OFSI publishes Oil Price Cap advisory on evasion linked to product origin manipulation through fabricated and falsified Certificates of Origin (CO)
OFSI has identified instances where shipments of Russian origin oil and oil products have been manipulated to appear as non-Russian through the use of fabricated or falsified certificates of origin (CO).
US Treasury targets fentanyl traffickers and other key contributors to U.S. opioid crisis
Applies to a network of nine Mexican nationals involved in fentanyl, heroin, and other deadly drug trafficking and money laundering for the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
US Treasury targets key Hamas leaders and financiers
OFAC is designating six senior Hamas officials, including the terrorist group’s representatives abroad, a senior member of the Hamas military wing, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as individuals involved in supporting the terrorist group’s fundraising efforts and weapons smuggling into Gaza.
EP demands EU crackdown on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and fossil fuel Imports urging member states to step up monitoring and inspections
EP calls for more targeted measures against these vessels in the next EU sanctions packages, including all individual ships as well as their owners, operators, managers, accounts, banks and insurance companies. It also demands the systematic sanctioning of vessels sailing through EU waters without known insurance and urges the EU to enhance its surveillance capabilities…
Council of the EU widens restrictive measures in view of Iran support of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and lists one individual and four entities
This additional measure is targeted to the use of vessels and ports for the transfer of Iranian-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), missiles and related technologies and components. The decision introduces a prohibition on the export, transfer, supply, or sale from the EU to Iran of components used in the development and production of missiles and UAVs.
OFSI highlights key changes to Sanctions legislation introduced through the Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2024
This instrument introduces the following changes to sanctions legislation: An expansion of the definition of relevant firms subject to financial sanctions reporting obligations to cover additional sectors – high value dealers, art market participants, insolvency practitioners and letting agencies. Changing the existing requirements on relevant firms and involved persons to report suspected offences to a requirement to report suspected breaches of sanctions regulations.
FCDO announces a wave of new sanctions against Russia’s military industrial complex and Russian-backed mercenary groups
The UK has imposed new sanctions on Russia’s military-industrial complex targeting suppliers of crucial military equipment and Russian-backed mercenaries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The sanctions aim to disrupt Russia’s access to vital resources for its illegal war in Ukraine, including goods from China, Turkey and Central Asia. This action precedes the European Political Community Summit in Budapest…
US DoT announces the treasury sanctions key members of La Linea, a group involved in trafficking fentanyl into the US
The US Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned five Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities linked to La Linea, a drug trafficking group responsible for fentanyl smuggling into the U.S. This action, coordinated with the DEA and Mexico’s UIF, is part of ongoing efforts to disrupt criminal networks. Treasury has sanctioned over 350 targets in drug trafficking and continues to work with international partners, including China and Mexico, to combat…