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OFAC Amends Cuban Control Regulations
The amendments are effective October 9, 2019 and amends general license requirements and adds restrictions on family remittances.
Source: OFAC; Publication Date September 9, 2019 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-09-09/pdf/2019-19411.pdf
Treasury Targets Wide Range of Terrorists and Their Supporters Using Enhanced Counterterrorism Sanctions Authorities
On September 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) utilized newly enhanced counterterrorism
sanctions authorities to designate a series of terrorist leaders, facilitators, and entities. Equipped with new tools from President Trump’s
recently updated Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which became effective today, Treasury designated 15 leaders, individuals, and entities
affiliated with terror groups. The action targets a wide array of groups, including entities affiliated with HAMAS, the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria (ISIS), al-Qa’ida, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods-Force (IRGC-QF), and combined with actions taken by the State
Department amounts to some of the furthest reaching designations of terrorists and their supporters in the past 15 years.
Source: OFAC; Publication Date September 10, 2019 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm772
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