The Office of Foreign Assets Control removed 30 individuals and entities from its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, and updated two individuals and one entity under Zimbabwe designations, OFAC said (here). OFAC also updated one entity and one individual under Kingpin Act designations (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and six entities to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, and removed 17 total individuals and entities from it, OFAC said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added three individuals to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, under counterterrorism and Democratic Republic of the Congo designations, OFAC said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added one entity and four individuals to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, under nonproliferation designations, OFAC said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control deleted three individuals (here) and one entity (here) from its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, and added 10 individuals to the list (here and here), OFAC said. Also, the State Department designated one entity as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, State said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the PacNet Group a significant transnational criminal organization, OFAC said in a news release (here). "As part of today’s action, OFAC is also designating a global network of 12 individuals and 24 entities across 18 countries," it said. "PacNet is the third-party payment processor of choice for perpetrators of a wide range of mail fraud schemes," it said.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added one individual to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, under counterterrorism designations, OFAC said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added two individuals to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, under counterterrorism designations, OFAC said (here).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control and PanAmerican Seed Company entered into a $4.3 million civil settlement, after OFAC alleged the firm violated the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations by indirectly exporting flower and other seeds 48 times to two Iranian distributors from May 2009 to March 2012, the agency said (here). PanAm Seed didn’t voluntarily disclose the alleged violations, which specifically involved seed shipments to consignees based in two third-countries in Europe or the Middle East, as well as arrangements made by PanAm customers for re-exportation of the seeds to Iran, the agency said. OFAC deemed the case to be egregious. High- and mid-level personnel of PanAm Seed and/or its parent company Ball Horticultural were aware of U.S. sanctions applying to Iran and the requirement to get a specific OFAC license to export the seeds, OFAC said.