On March 15, 2022, the United States added additional Russian and Belarusian individuals and one Russian entity to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list of Specially Designated...more
On March 11, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order prohibiting exports of US-origin luxury goods to Russia and Belarus and Russian and Belarusian oligarchs, broadening the US import ban on goods originating in the...more
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President Biden signed an Executive Order prohibiting the importation into the United States of Russian origin crude oil, petroleum, petroleum fuels, oils, and products of their distillation; liquefied natural gas (LNG);...more
The United States and the European Union imposed additional sanctions this week in response to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine and the United States announced its intention to make sanctions enforcement a...more
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Following the imposition last week of wide ranging economic and trade sanctions on Russia for its actions against Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...more
On February 23 and 24, 2022, the United States, through the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), took significant...more
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On February 22, 2022, the United States announced and implemented new economic sanctions targeting the Russian Federation’s financial services sector and persons that operate in the sector. These sanctions are designed to cut...more
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFACas added another cyber actor to the SDN list. As a result, U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in any dealings with the State Research Center of the Russian Federation FGUP...more
Ransomware has hit pandemic proportions and there does not seem to be a clear end in sight. On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory regarding ransom...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued guidance on humanitarian exports and compliance challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic....more
Continued political turmoil in Venezuela has led to additional U.S. sanctions. On Jan. 25, 2019, President Donald Trump amended the various executive orders that authorize sanctions against the government of Venezuela to...more