A reader and colleague sent me an email with a great story (and the wire documents to back it up) about OFAC screening software gone bad. At issue was a relatively small wire transfer that was blocked because the SWIFT…
Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Control issued General License D-1 relating to provision of personal communications software, services and hardware to Iran. This general license amends and replaces, as of February 7, 2014, General License D on the…
Stephen Law is a distinguished scholar, a philosopher and a senior lecturer at Heythrop College, University of London. Steven Law, on the other hand, is a Burmese man, also known as Tun Myint Naing, who helps to run his father’s…
The continuing violence and political instability in Ukraine have raised concerns around the world, especially within the United States and the EU. Whether some form of sanctions against current officials in the Ukrainian government should be imposed has been debated…
ABOVE: Ante Gotovina At the beginning of January, we reported on a lawsuit filed by Ante Gotovina, an alleged war criminal, who sued the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) seeking removal from OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals and…