Sanctions
Sanctions: UK Treasury amends Ivory Cost sanctions
Additions and changes to the UK Ivory Coast sanctions regime
Sanctions: US sacks Fifth Avenue office block
The US Treasury says that an office block in New York is owned by a US company that is owned by a Jersey company that is owned by Bank Melli against which the US has published sancitions declaring the bank to be a nuclear proliferator. It's frozen ownership, which is thought to be a pre-cursor to seeking confiscation.
Sanctions: Pakistan closes Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Yesterday, India satisfied the UN Security Council that Pakistan based charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa was involved in the provision of financing to terrorists. Today, Pakistan has reacted by closing the organisation.
Sanctions: Iran aircraft sales block extended
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Temporary Denial Order (TDO) suspending the export privileges of Galaxy Aviation Trade Company, three of its shareholders, and Iran Air for 180 days.
Sanctions: US Treasury designates Mugabe cronies
Washington, DC 25 November 2008--The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated four Mugabe regime cronies and a number of entities owned or controlled by two of them. The financial and logistical support they have provided to the regime has enabled Robert Mugabe to pursue policies that seriously undermine democratic processes and institutions in Zimbabwe.
Sanctions: new Holy Land Foundation Trial ends - with predictable results
The outrageous handling of the trial of The Holy Land Foundation and its officers last year resulted in the eventual declaration of a mistrial. The outcome of the revised proceedings was never in doubt.
US targets Somali terrorists - not pirates
The US Treasury has identified a Somali group it says has links to al Qaeda - but it's nothing to do with the core Somali problems of war lords and piracy.
Sanctions: it's OK to trade with Iran, says Malaysian minister
Malaysia's Foreign Minister has clarified the position on Iran sanctions for Malaysia's businesses.