The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week announced additional sanctions for leaders of La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, and removed Magnitsky sanctions for a Hungarian government official.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the International Bank of Yemen (IBY) April 17 for financially supporting the Yemen-based Houthis, also known as Ansarallah.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Chinese oil refinery Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co. Ltd. on April 16 for buying more than $1 billion worth of Iranian crude oil from “shadow fleet” vessels.

The U.K. on April 14 added two entries to its Iran sanctions regime and amended entries under its Russia and global anti-corruption sanctions lists. Under the Iran sanctions regime, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation listed Rawa Majid and the Foxtrot Network. OFSI amended the entries for Paramount Energy & Commodities and its owner, Niels Oscar Troost. Under the global anti-corruption list, OFSI corrected the listing of Moldovan national Marina Tauber.

The Council of the European Union on April 14 sanctioned seven individuals and two entities under its Iran sanctions regime for their role in arbitrarily detaining EU "mono and dual nationals on spurious grounds" and executing members of ethnic and religious minorities, the council said. The entities are the Shiraz Central Prison and the First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz. The individuals are members of the judiciary, including two involved with the prison system.

The U.K. this week amended four entries under its domestic counterterrorism sanctions list to make them subject to "director disqualification" sanctions. These sanctions block them from directly or indirectly being a director of a U.K. company. The people are Mohammed Fawaz Khaled, Aozma Sultana, Nazem Ahmad and Mustafa Ayash.

The U.K. added four Georgian officials to its global human rights sanctions regime April 10. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation sanctioned Shalva Bedoidze, Georgia's first deputy minister of internal affairs; Giorgi Gabitashvili, general prosecutor; Karlo Katsitadze, head of the special investigatory service; and Mirza Kezevadze, deputy chief of the special task department.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned United Arab Emirates-based Indian national Jugwinder Singh Brar for owning multiple shipping companies that operate a fleet of vessels helping Iran move sanctioned goods. OFAC designated his UAE-based companies Prime Tankers LLC and Glory International FZ-LLC, along with India-based companies Global Tankers Private Limited and B and P Solutions Private Limited, and more than 30 vessels with ties to the companies or Brar.

The U.S. this week sanctioned Mexican national Jesus Alfredo Beltran Guzman for trafficking illegal drugs into the U.S. and for being a key leader of the drug trafficking group Beltran Leyva Organization. The Office of Foreign Assets Control said the group is "one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world, and it has moved fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the U.S.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned five Iranian companies and one person for supporting entities that work on Iran's nuclear program, including the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the Iran Centrifuge Technology Co. OFAC said the designations target companies procuring or making critical technologies for the two Iranian organizations.