Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the results of a major international takedown effort coordinated by financial regulators and law enforcement agencies both domestically and abroad, culminating in the arrests of over 276 bad actors carrying out a long-standing transnational criminal ploy at the expense of countless unsuspecting American citizens. According to […]
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On April 24, 2026, the European Union formally adopted its 20th package of restrictive measures against Russia (Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2026). This legislation marks a critical evolution in the bloc’s economic statecraft. While the early days of the conflict saw massive, blunt-force sanctions aimed at severing direct bilateral trade, the landscape has fundamentally […]
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In April 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) significantly escalated its sanctions campaign against Iran by moving to not only designate maritime vessels and facilitators tied to their illicit oil trade, but by also directly targeting the commercial infrastructure sustaining that trade as part of a greater movement coined […]
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