A whole mess of removals, from the narcotics trafficking, terror and Iran sanctions lists. First, the deleted drug traffickers: MORENO BERNAL, Luz Marina, c/o PROMOTORA HOTELERA LTDA, Bogota, Colombia; DOB 02 Jul 1955; POB Bogota, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula No. 41703570 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK]. DIAZ HERRERA, Jose Ricuarte, c/o […]
The General Court of the European Union ruled on December 5, 2012 that Qualitest FZE should no longer be sanctioned under Council Regulation 267/2012 (aka “the 2012 Regulation”). The judgment was published on January 26th, but was not “in force” until Monday, when Her Majesty's Treasury removed the company from […]
DFAT is proposing changes to the Iranian autonomous sanctions program, and is soliciting public comment through May 10th. The text of the proposed changes are on DFAT's site for your review. Simply put: You won't be able to import, purchase, or transport Iran's natural gas You won't be able to […]
This afternoon, OFAC removed the following names from the ISA sanctions list: Allvale Maritime Inc., 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia Société Anonyme Monégasque D’Administration Maritime Et Aérienne (a.k.a. S.A.M.A.M.A., a.k.a. SAMAMA), Villa Saint Jean, 3 Ruelle Saint Jean, MC 98000, Monaco Tanker Pacific Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd, […]
OFAC today made a number of changes to the Iranian, WMD and Terrorism sanctions. First, the following person and entities were added under the Iran (IFSR) and WMD (NPWMD) programs: ZANJANI, Babak Morteza; DOB 12 Mar 1974; alt. DOB 12 Mar 1971; citizen Iran; Passport L18597666 (Iran); alt. Passport L95279398 […]
Gustavo Vianna-Biehler from Banco de la Nacion Argentina saw my piece in ACAMS Connection that I posted yesterday on the Publications page, and asks: A substantial portion of Iran’s foreign trade (oil) is with China. Does China participate in the Iran sanctions agreements?. What about India?. Could it be the […]
The EU issued a press release to say that the following countries are going to implement the enhanced sanctions on Iran: Croatia Macedonia Iceland Albania Liechtenstein Norway Moldova Mr. Watchlist notes that these news releases are relatively new – there was one 2 weeks ago for the North Korean sanctions […]
As usual, these are effective as of tomorrow. The Iran changes, involve both additions and a significant number of deletions (14). The North Korean changes are all additions, 3 individuals and 2 companies. The updated consolidated lists will be added today to the Watchlists page. Links: SECO North Korean sanctions […]
What’s to prevent a country with blocked cargo vessels with changing the IMO number? If you changed the name (which Iran did with the IRISL vessels), changed the flagging (Iran has even changed the flagging without actually working with the country in question) and changed the IMO number (I assume […]
Maritech provided fuel inspection services to 5 cargo vessels associated with IRISL (Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines) for a total fee of $9,868. Iran had changed the name of 4 of the 5 vessels (ostensibly different from the names on the SDN list), but Maritech neither checked the names […]
Mr. Watchlist 