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OFAC Amends Narcotics Trafficking, Kingpin Sanctions Regulations

The Office of Foreign Assets Control amended its Narcotics Trafficking Sanctions Regulations and the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations to add and revise general licenses, prohibitions, definitions and technical changes, the agency said in a notice released May 14. The…

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final rule, effective May 17, will revise several general licenses related to payments for “legal services,” certain transactions for “maintenance of blocked tangible property” and emergency medical services, which will be subject to new recordkeeping requirements. The agency also revised definitions for “foreign person” and “specially designated narcotics trafficker,” updated certain “regulatory provisions” in the sanctions language, and made other conforming changes.