In recent weeks, the US Government has imposed a series of additional sanctions against Russia consisting of additional measures focused on the energy pipeline sector, as well as further measures in response to the alleged poisoning of Alexy Navalny. This latest escalation of sanctions against Russia builds upon the April 2021 sanctions imposed pursuant to Executive Order 14024, “Blocking Property With Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.” Please…
On July 2, 2021, the US Government imposed sanctions on several military-affiliated entities and individual senior officials and certain family members in response to the February military coup in Burma (Myanmar). In a statement on the same day, the US State Department said that these “measures further demonstrate that [the US Government] will continue to take additional action against, and impose costs on, the [Burmese] military and its leaders until they reverse course and provide…
On June 21, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Belarus General License 3 (“GL 3”) authorizing certain transactions with the newly designated State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (“Belarusian KGB”) along with related FAQs (FAQ 912 and FAQ 913). In addition to the Belarusian KGB, OFAC designated 16 new parties to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (“SDN List”) pursuant to Executive Order…
In brief On 17 May 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an additional round of sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 14014 “Blocking Property with Respect to the Situation in Burma” (“EO 14014”). It designates and adds the State Administrative Council (“SAC”), four individual members of the SAC, seven SAC-appointed ministers, the SAC-appointed governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar (“CBM”), the SAC-appointed chairman of the Union Election…