{"id":6365,"date":"2023-08-29T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:08:49","slug":"usa-specially-designated-nationals-and-blocked-persons-list-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/usa-specially-designated-nationals-and-blocked-persons-list-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: specially designated nationals and blocked persons list updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6360 editor-img alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito-425x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito-425x319.png 425w, https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito-533x400.png 533w, https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito-916x687.png 916w, https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito-723x542.png 723w, https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/OFAC_sito.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/>We report an update of recent listings implemented by the United States against individuals and entities in different countries, such as Belarus, Russia, Lebanon, Syria, Myanmar, the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Russia<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>On August 9, the <b>U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control<\/b> (OFAC) designated <b>eight individuals and five entities<\/b> held responsible for the repeated repression of civil society by the <b>Belarusian regime<\/b>, the complicity in the unjustified war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the enrichment of the repressive leader of the Belarusian regime Alyaksandr Lukashenka. For further information on the subjects listed by the OFAC, please refer <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20230809\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On August 11, OFAC issued a <b>new round of sanctions targeting prominent members of Russia\u2019s financial elite, as well as a Russian business association<\/b>, \u201cThe Russian association of employers the Russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs\u201d (a.k.a. RSPP), a Russia-based organization involved in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy. The RSPP was designated pursuant to <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/media\/57936\/download?inline\">Executive Order (E.O.) 14024<\/a> for operating or having operated in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy. For further information on the subjects listed by the OFAC, please refer<a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20230811\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, OFAC designated <b>four subjects<\/b> involved in the <b>poisoning of Aleksey Navalny<\/b> in August 2020. On August 16, OFAC imposed <b>sanctions<\/b> on <b>three entities<\/b> tied to a <b>sanctions evasion network<\/b> attempting to support <b>arms deals<\/b> between <b>Russia<\/b> and the <b>Democratic <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We report an update of recent listings implemented by the United States against individuals and entities in different countries, such as Belarus, Russia, Lebanon, Syria, Myanmar, the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Russia \u00a0On August 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[46,206,114,122],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-belarus","tag-russian-federation","tag-us","tag-us-sanctions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zpcsrl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}