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OFAC Adds to SDN List; Makes Kingpin Act Designation

The Office of Foreign Assets Control added one individual and one entity to its Specially Designated Nationals list under Central African Republic conflict designations (here), and added two individuals to the list pursuant to Zimbabwe sanctions regulations (here), OFAC said.…

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The agency has also frozen the assets of Tanzanian national Ali Khatib Haji Hassan (a.k.a. "Shkuba"), and has identified Hassan and the Hassan Drug Trafficking Organization as "significant foreign narcotics traffickers," pursuant to the Kingpin Act, OFAC said (here). Under the Kingpin designation, U.S. persons are "generally prohibited" from engaging in transactions with Hassan or his group.