<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/libya-sanctions-questions-keep-piling-up-we-provide-answers/"></div>Over the past month I have been inundated with calls from clients, potential clients, and reporters seeking answers to a number of questions related to the recently imposed sanctions against Libya. Due to the recency of such sanctions, the regulations that will serve as the legal framework of Libya sanctions have not yet been promulgated. […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_
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<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/moussa-koussa-ofac-sdn-list-removal-in-record-time/"></div>Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has been removed from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals List……only after two weeks! As an attorney who handles quite a few OFAC SDN removal cases my feelings on this removal are mixed. On one hand, I was glad to see such a high profile OFAC […]<!-- 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/could-chavez-and-venezuela-find-themselves-on-the-ofac-sdn-list/"></div>Sometime last year, I wrote about the growing connection between President Chavez of Venezuela and President Ahmadinejad of Iran, and whether their relationship could lead to Venezuela’s placement on the Specially Designated National (SDN) List administered by the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). At the time I mentioned […]<!-- 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/college-students-endangered-by-libya-sanctions-apply-for-ofac-licenses/"></div>I stumbled upon an article today which discussed the impact of the new Libya Sanctions on Libyan students enrolled in U.S. universities whose tuition and living expenses are paid for by the Government of Libya. Since 2006, the Libyan government has sent Libyan students to study in the United States. Many of these students are […]<!-- 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/ofac-issues-advisory-alert-to-shippers-and-freight-forwarders/"></div>Today, the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory alert to shippers, importers/exporters and freight forwarders worldwide, warning them of the practices of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Shipping Lines (IRISL) which have been used to evade U.S. sanctions. OFAC delineated a number of practices engaged in […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter
<div class="at-above-post-cat-page addthis_tool" data-url="https://sanctionlaw.com/a-big-no-no-iranian-americans-working-in-iran-without-a-license/"></div>Over the past six months I have had a number of inquiries asking whether or not U.S. citizens or greencard holders can work in Iran. The simple answer here is no, unless that party has a license to do so from the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The […]<!-- 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/diamonds-are-forever-sanctioned/"></div>The title of this blog is not necessarily true, however, there has been quite a buzz recently in the world of diamond trade regarding trading with diamond mining companies who are blocked on the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. Those parties finding themselves […]<!-- 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/ofac-continues-mission-against-islamic-republic-of-iran-shipping-lines-vessels/"></div>As turmoil continues throughout the Middle East, the United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has continued its campaign to designate vessels belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). These latest designations target four vessels belonging to IRISL: Iran Darya, Nardis, Parmis, and Patris. As a result […]<!-- 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/new-ofac-sdn-designations-for-libya-and-terrorism/"></div>The United States Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has recently designated two (2) individuals and 14 entities, under the Global Terrorism Sanctions and the Libya Sanctions respectively. The two individuals designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Miguel De Garikota Aspiazu Rubina and Jose Ignacio Reta De Frutos, are both alleged […]<!-- 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/are-ofac-sanctions-against-zimbabwe-pushing-diamonds-traders-further-underground/"></div>For sometime many Zimbabweans have called for the West to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, because of the belief that the sanctions are undermining the Zimbabwe diamond industry. According to recent reports Zimbabwe’s mining companies, particularly those nationally owned companies, have aggressively been seeking avenues to trade without being subjected to U. S. and E.U sanctions. […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on