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The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) assisted 20 Member States seize thousands of fake and illicit toys worth millions of euros under Europol’s operation LUDUS III, which was also supported by the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the World Customs Organisation.
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The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the Group Internal Audit Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group (GIA) signed an Administrative Cooperation Arrangement on fighting fraud, corruption, misuse of funds and other illegal activities.
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OFAC will retire its public-facing file transfer protocol (FTP) server (ofacftp.treas.gov) on or about June 10, 2024.
In order to comply with updated Treasury security policies, OFAC will retire this FTP capability associated with the file transfer protocol. OFAC is aware that many users utilize ofacftp.treas.gov to automate their sanctions list data downloads. OFAC will maintain this server for one additional calendar year to allow users sufficient time to develop automation that utilizes the list content hosted on the agency's website at the following URLs listed below. Members of the public may contact OFAC at O_F_A_C@treasury.gov for technical support related to this decision. Users can access all of OFAC's list and other sanctions-related content at the following URLs: Human-readable SDN List Files: Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List (SDN) Human Readable Lists | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov) SDN List Data Files: Specially Designated Nationals List - Data Formats and Data Schemas | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov) All non-SDN List Data Files (Consolidated List): Consolidated Sanctions List (Non-SDN Lists) | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov) All non-SDN human-readable list files: Other OFAC Sanctions Lists | Office of Foreign Assets Control (treasury.gov)
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The implications of the stolen vehicle trade in the central Sahel are more significant than a single case may suggest. The 2012 crisis in northern Mali, its aftermath and the regional spread in the ensuing decade have contributed to ongoing violence in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and increasingly at the northern edges of West African coastal nations.
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OFAC has updated its SDN List. Please visit the URL below to view this action
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OFAC has updated its SDN List. Please visit the URL below to view this action
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Periodistas, activistas y sociedad civil exponen los retos de la Ley estatal de protección a personas defensoras y periodistas en Sinaloa.
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OFAC has updated its SDN List. Please visit the URL below to view this action
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The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing Iran-related General License P "Authorizing the Wind Down of Transactions Involving Navyan Abr Arvan Private Limited Company or Arvancloud Global Technologies L.L.C." In addition, the following changes have been made to OFAC's list of Specially Designated Nationals:
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Una conversación interdisciplinar importante para establecer agendas de investigación y de política pública.
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Over the past seven years, kidnapping has become a widespread business in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Members of all segments of society are kidnapped, and many people – not only the members of armed groups – have become kidnappers.
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Una región en riesgo por la presencia de laboratorios clandestinos cuyos desechos químicos pueden causar daños considerables.
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Under the control of kleptocratic networks and foreign nationals jockeying for position to maximize profits, the gold sector in South Sudan is currently characterized by corruption and criminality.
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The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing a Fact Sheet on the "Provision of Humanitarian Assistance and Trade to Combat COVID-19." OFAC is also issuing Iran-related General License N-2, Venezuela-related GL 39b, Syria GL 21b, and amending several FAQs.
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The UN Ad Hoc Committee negotiating a treaty on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes
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Today, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published Guidance to Industry on Iran’s UAV-Related Activities.
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Having long hosted Western Asia’s largest methamphetamine market, Iran for decades has employed an aggressive multi-million-dollar campaign to curb the trade. The discovery, however, of the ephedra plant in neighbouring Afghanistan – a source of ephedrine, a key ingredient for the drug – threatens to undermine Tehran’s efforts.
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The 32nd meeting of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) took place 22–26 May 2023 in Vienna. As has become the trend in recent years, geopolitics overshadowed proceedings at the session, which is supposed to be technical and consensus-based.
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In 2022 the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) protected €600 million of EU taxpayers’ money by recommending the recovery of over €426 million to the EU budget from fraud and irregularities, and by safeguarding a further €200 million.
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This webinar will present the main findings and conclusions from the report titled 'Organized Corruption: Political Financing in the Western Balkans'.
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The European Anti-Fraud Office signed a cooperation agreement with the French National Council of Commercial Count Clerks and GIE Infogreffe who provides the distribution of legal and economic information on business companies on behalf of all of the Registries of all French commercial courts.
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Scores of mafia group members arrested in northern European joint operation.
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The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing Sudan General License Number 1 "Official Business of Certain International Organizations and Entities;" Sudan General License Number 2 "Certain Transactions in Support of Nongovernmental Organizations’ Activities;" Sudan General License Number 3 "Transactions Related to the Provision of Agricultural Commodities, Medicine, Medical Devices, Replacement Parts and Components, or Software Updates, and the Extraction, Processing, Transport, Sale, or Distribution of Water in Sudan;" and Sudan General License Number 4 "Authorizing the Wind Down of Transactions Involving Defense Industries System or Al Junaid Multi Activities Co Ltd."
In addition, the following changes have been made to OFAC's list of Specially Designated Nationals:
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The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is issuing Russia-related General License 69 "Authorizing Certain Debt Securities Servicing Transactions Involving International Investment Bank."
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In March 2023, the GI-TOC held a roundtable to consult experts in human rights, digital rights, and criminal justice on the legal and human rights safeguards in the consolidated negotiation document proposed by the Ad Hoc Committee (AHC) for a treaty to counter the use of Information and communications technologies for criminal purposes (broadly referred to as the ‘cybercrime treaty’).
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