Iran-related Designations; Cuba Designations; Belarus-related Designations Removals
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Source:US Treasury OFAC (U.S. Government work, public domain)
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced new additions to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, targeting individuals and organizations linked to Iran and Cuba. The updates involve various sanctions programs, including Executive Order 13902 regarding Iran and Executive Order 14404 regarding Cuba.
Under the Iranian sanctions program, OFAC designated several individuals, including Seyed Adel Heidari, Hossein Ali Zaker Hossein, and Mohammad Mahdi Zaker Hossein. These designations are linked to entities such as Dot One Value Creation Group and Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company, as well as the individual Babak Morteza Zanjani. Additionally, the financial and insurance entity Bitbank (also known as Bitbank3) was added to the list.
The Cuban designations include several individuals: Joaquin Francisco Cancio Monteagudo, Julio Hurtado Betancourt, and Dioglis Pedrera Arguello. The Treasury also targeted multiple Cuban state-owned enterprises involved in research, defense, and mining activities. These include CIDAI, CID-SIM (also known as ECTSIM or SIMPRO), CIDNAV, and the Grito de Baire Center for Research and Development and Production.
Further Cuban entities added to the SDN list include the nickel-related organizations CEDINIQ and CEPRONIQUEL, as well as the Empresa de Servicios Tecnicos de Computacion Comunicaciones y Electronica del Niquel. These designations were issued under the CUBA-EO14404 sanctions framework.
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