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Obama issued a presidential order on 9 March 2015 declaring Venezuela a "threat to [U.S.] national security", and ordered the Treasury Department to freeze property and assets of seven Venezuelan officials [21] [22] it held responsible for human rights abuses, repression and at least 43 deaths during demonstrations. [23]
In May 1994, its mission expanded to involve regulatory responsibilities. In October 1994, Treasury's Office of Financial Enforcement merged with FinCEN. [5] On September 26, 2002, after passage of Title III of the PATRIOT Act, Treasury Order 180-01 [6] designated FinCEN as an official bureau within the Department of the Treasury.
Azza Air Transport, former Cargo airline, in the SDN List. The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, also known as the SDN List, is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers).
The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009 and also ...
OFAC is headquartered in the Freedman's Bank Building, located across the street from the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.. In addition to the Trading with the Enemy Act and the various national emergencies currently in effect, OFAC derives its authority from a variety of U.S. federal laws, particularly the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), regarding embargoes and ...
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Section 241 of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (СААTSA) required the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, to submit to the appropriate congressional committees a detailed report оп senior political figures and oligarchs in the Russian Federation (Section 241 (a)(1)) and on ...
The department will refund about $116.4 billion of privately held Treasury notes and bonds maturing on Nov. 15 to raise new cash of $8.6 billion from private investors. The Treasury will sell $58 ...