The US imposed Tuesday sanctions on Venezuela's new Vice President Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of drug trafficking.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that the 42 year-old was on its list for drug trafficking, along with one of his main partners Samark Jose Lopez Bello. The two are on a drug-trafficking list under whatRead more
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on 18 senior Syrian regime officials connected to Syria's weapons of mass destruction program based on findings from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The department said investigations "found that the Syrian government, specifically the Syrian Arab Air Force, was responsibleRead more
Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding (OTMT) announced Sunday that the board of directors of Orabank, an indirectly majority owned subsidiary of OTMT, has taken a board of directors decision to immediately start procedures of terminating the bank and officially advising the relevant authorities.
As part of the termination process, all Orabank cash and liquid assets (short term assets andRead more
The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a decision to exempt all the US medical equipment exported to Sudan from ban imposed on it.
The decision was made after a campaign implemented in the US Congress by a Sudanese physician who owns a clinic for curing breast cancer in Khartoum, according to Al Sudani Newspaper on Monday.
TheRead more