A December executive order that gave the U.S. broader authority to sanction financial institutions involved in shipping goods to Russia has had a “meaningful impact” on Russia’s military industrial supply chains so far, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this week.
The U.K.’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation this week sanctioned three people with ties to al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based and al-Qaida-linked terrorist group. The designations mirror an earlier announcement made by the U.N. Security Council (see 2405220012) and target Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, Mohamed Mohamud Mire and Mohamed Omar Mohamed.
Canada this week announced another round of sanctions against Russia, targeting two people and six entities that the country said have helped ship weapons, missiles and other military items from North Korea to Russia. Canada said it has “recorded evidence” that the Kremlin used the weapons in its war against Ukraine last year and this year. The two people designated are “senior representatives of Russian enterprises that are closely linked” to the Russian military, and the entities are Russian shipping companies that own or operate planes and cargo vessels that were used to transport the weapons.
The U.N. Security Council this week sanctioned three people with ties to the Somalia-based al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida linked terrorist group. The designations target Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, Mohamed Mohamud Mire and Mohamed Omar Mohamed.
U.K. defense minister Grant Shapps said he has evidence that China is supplying Russia with lethal aid for its war in Ukraine.
The State Department last week removed Cuba from its list of countries that aren’t cooperating fully with U.S. counterterrorism efforts, an agency spokesperson told reporters May 16. The spokesperson said several recent actions by Cuba -- including the fact that it resumed “law enforcement cooperation” with the U.S. on antiterrorism efforts in 2023 -- led the State Department to remove the country from the list.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a technical notice to users of its new Sanctions List Service (see 2405060043) of a possible error involving old URLs of the agency’s sanctions data files. OFAC said it has received reports that “users with automated processes designed to download sanctions data files at” certain old URLs are receiving "403 errors" when trying to access the SLS hosted files.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned two people and three entities in Russia for helping to transfer weapons and other military items from North Korea, including shipments of mortars, military communications equipment and aviation parts.
Australia sanctioned several Iranian senior government and military officials, businesspeople and companies linked to the country’s “destabilising behaviour” of its missile and drone programs, which has “fostered instability across the region for many years,” Australia’s foreign affairs ministry said this week. Among the designations are Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, Iran’s defense minister, and Esmail Qaani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force. Australia also sanctioned the IRGC Navy, which it said wrongly seized an Israeli-linked and Portuguese-flagged civilian ship in international waters on April 13.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned two people and three entities in Russia for helping to transfer weapons and other military items from North Korea, including shipments of mortars, military communications equipment and aviation parts.