<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/sending-money-to-those-in-iran-check-with-ofac-first/"></div>We get questions all the time about individuals seeking to transfer funds to Iran to help out family members. Many of those inquiring into how one legally transfers money to Iran have done some reading on the Iranian Transactions Regulations (ITR) and the other sanctions programs administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
Category : Erich Ferrari
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/the-foreign-sanctions-evaders-sanctions-aka-the-president-and-ofac-are-not-messing-around-sanctions/"></div>I didn’t see this coming at all, but yesterday President Obama signed an executive order which will prohibit certain activities with, and entry into the United States of any individuals found to have engaged in violations of U.S. economic sanctions targeting either Iran or Syria. These sanctions will have a huge impact in further blocking […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-voluntary-self-disclosures-key-considerations/"></div>Every matter arising as a result of economic sanctions administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is different, because every set of circumstances surrounding transactions prohibited by those sanctions is different. Despite the variance between these cases, there are some common considerations that can and should be […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/ofac-follows-the-lead-of-the-department-of-commerce-issues-syria-general-license-4a/"></div>Today the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License 4A. This general license replaces and supersedes the previously issued Syria General License 4. General License 4A authorizes the export to Syria of any items authorized and licensed for export to Syria by the United States Department […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/president-obama-issues-human-rights-it-sanctions-against-parties-in-iran-and-syria/"></div>Today, President Obama signed an executive order which blocked the property and interests in property, and prohibited entry into the United States of those individuals and entities alleged to be engaged in human rights abuses in Iran and Syria via the use of information technology. This is a particularly surprising move in light of the […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/the-lifecycle-of-an-ofac-sanctions-program/"></div>One of the questions I get from time to time is where do sanctions administered by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) come from? How are the conceived and the implemented? How are they impacted or influenced by global affairs? Indeed, these are important questions, particularly for those […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/new-sanctions-coming-for-venezuela/"></div>Over a year ago, I wrote a couple of blog postings regarding the growing concerns of the U.S. Government surrounding Venezuela’s ties to the FARC and to Iran. I had noted that, as a result of these concerns, it could be possible that Venezuela could come under increased scrutiny for sanctioning from the United States […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/new-burma-ofac-general-license-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-burma-sanctions/"></div>There has been a lot of talk in the news recently about the rescission of economic sanctions targeting Burma due to political changes occurring in that country. Today we may have seen the first steps towards the rescission of those sanctions in a general license issued by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/one-way-guatemalan-ofac-kingpin-mejia-could-get-off-sdn-list/"></div>Yesterday, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) designated a Guatemalan spice buyer, Horst Walter Overdick-Mejia, a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpin (SDNTK), calling him a “critical link” between Colombian producers and a Mexican cartel. Mr. Overdick-Mejia was indicted on trafficking and gun charges on January 19, 2012 and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/setting-the-record-straight-personal-remittances-to-and-from-iran-and-ofac/"></div>In recent weeks I have been getting calls from numerous Iranian Americans who are inquiring into OFAC licensing for the transfer of personal funds as cash gifts or as inheritances from Iran to the U.S.. As usual I give them the standard line: non-commercial personal remittances from Iran to the United States are authorized to […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_