The Latest Breaking News from OFAC

Sinbad.io is the third crypto mixer to be sanctioned by OFAC since May 2022.

From Monday's opinion by Judge T. Kent Wetherell, II (N.D. Fla.) in Coin Center v. Yellen (for a similar decision, see this August post about Van Loon v. Dep't of Treasury): Plaintiffs argue that [the government's restriction on the use of] Tornado Cash [a mechanism for further anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions]…

The NIA had registered the case on January 22, 2020, based on the original first information report (FIR) dated May 31, 2019.

Punitive sanctions were imposed on Indian businesses for links with world’s biggest diamond miner Alrosa

So a federal court held Thursday.

Opponents of Myanmar's military government are applauding fresh financial sanctions imposed by the United States on the Southeast Asian nation

Family members of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of war crimes for his role in the 1990s Balkan conflict, sued the U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday over their continued inclusion on a U.S. sanctions list.

US Treasury officials say that the Assad government has used drug trafficking as a source of illicit revenue.

Andrey Guryev, who has been put under UK government sanctions, claims he is not owner of Alfa Nero

A US federal prosecutor announced the arrest of a Lebanese-Belgian citizen considered a major financier of Iran-backed Hezbollah in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. US Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that Mohammed Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, designated by the US as a “global terrorist” in 2018, when it offered $10 million…

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.