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Sanctioned entities refer to entities listed on economic/trade embargo lists, such as by the US, EU, or UN, with which anyone subject to those jurisdictions is prohibited from dealing. Currently, this includes the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list of the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). You can search the full list of OFAC Specially Designated Nationals in OFAC’ssanctions database.
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OFAC sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Sinbad for its use by Lazarus Group to launder millions of dollars in stolen crypto. In a multi-agency effort that included the FBI and the Netherlands’ Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), authorities also seized Sinbad.io and took it offline. The designation included two bitcoin addresses linked to Sinbad.
OFAC and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in sanctioning Kimsuky for its cyber espionage activity and support of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. While South Korea’s June sanctions designation included crypto addresses, OFAC’s SDN list entry for Kimsuky did not, but did include identifying websites and email addresses.
OFAC sanctioned Russian national Ekaterina Zhdanova for cryptocurrency-based money laundering on behalf of Russian elites and ransomware groups. The designation included three bitcoin addresses Zhdanova used to facilitate these illicit activities.
Following the terrorist attack on Israel, OFAC sanctioned Hamas operatives and financial facilitators including Buy Cash Money and Money Transfer Company, a Gaza-based money services business that’s been used to transfer funds to Hamas affiliates and other terrorist groups.
OFAC sanctioned several individuals and companies in a China-based network for their role in manufacturing and distributing fentanyl and other drugs, and included 17 cryptocurrency addresses as identifiers in the SDN List entries for five individuals and one entity
In coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit, and the Colombia Counternarcotics Working Group, OFAC sanctioned 10 individuals affiliated with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel for trafficking illegal fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine into the United States. The designation included an Ethereum address as an identifier on one individual’s SDN List entry.
In a joint action, the U.K. HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and OFAC sanctioned eleven individuals associated with Trickbot, including well-known actors Maksim Galochkin and Mikhail Tsarev. Earlier this year, the U.K. and U.S. jointly sanctioned seven other members of the Trickbot group.
Two days after a federal judge upheld OFAC’s Tornado Cash designation from last year, OFAC sanctioned Roman Semenov for his role in supporting Lazarus Group and included eight cryptocurrency addresses as identifiers on his SDN list entry. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) also charged him and fellow co-founder Roman Storm for conspiracy to commit money laundering, operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, and commit sanctions violations.
In a joint action, the U.K. HM Treasury Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and OFAC sanctioned eleven individuals associated with Trickbot, including well-known actors Maksim Galochkin and Mikhail Tsarev. Earlier this year, the U.K. and U.S. jointly sanctioned seven other members of the Trickbot group.
OFAC and South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) sanctioned entities and individuals associated with illicit North Korean revenue generation schemes. One individual — Kim Sang Man — helped North Korean IT professionals find contract work overseas, and some of their proceeds were sent to North Korea in support of its weapons development programs. OFAC included six crypto addresses associated with Kim Sang Man in the designation.
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